A Los Angeles firefighter, who wished to remain anonymous, blasted local leaders who cut funding to fire services, telling Breitbart News on Saturday that the lack of personnel and water made fighting the Palisades Fire difficult.
BREITBART -- He said that claims that the “ember cast” — the wind-blown sparks and embers that carry fires to distant points — were too thick to save neighborhoods that were remote from the initial fire, but were destroyed, were not credible.
“We could have pre-deployed [ahead of the fire]. We didn’t have the resources. We could have saved buildings like [Rick] Caruso did. They say the ember cast was too thick? [Palisades unit] didn’t have the resources or the water to protect Ralph’s [the grocery store across from the local fire station].”
Caruso, a businessman and developer, managed to save his own Palisades Village mall by hiring a private firefighting company with its own water tankers.