Exposed: Newsom's Burn-It-Out Policy Behind LA Firestorm

Events leading up to the notorious Pacific Palisades fire in California are still being uncovered. In the latest such case, we learn now that there is a direct link between the administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom and the factors leading up to that catastrophic fire.

Eleven months after the Palisades Fire destroyed thousands of Los Angeles homes, we may finally have the smoking gun linking Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration to the deadly blaze.
A newly discovered “Wildfire Management Plan,” quietly issued by California State Parks just weeks before the Jan. 7 wildfire, states Newsom’s policy bluntly: “Unless specified otherwise, State Parks prefers to let Topanga State Park burn in a wildfire event” — disregarding the park’s proximity to residential neighborhoods.
The document, prepared in December 2024, was unearthed this week through legal discovery in a civil lawsuit against the state.
Attorney Alexander “Trey” Robinson, who represents thousands of Pacific Palisades residents, says the manual outlines new procedures for fire management.
Those procedures could have barred local firefighters from fully extinguishing an earlier blaze that later re-ignited in high winds.

The document also lays out exactly how the Lachman fire led to the destructive Pacific Palisades blaze, and it's confirmation of a revelation RedState reported on previously — one in which we learn that firefighters were actually ordered to leave the scene of the Lachman fire despite their warnings that there were still hotspots smoldering underground.

Federal investigators say the Palisades Fire was rekindled from the much smaller Lachman Fire on Jan. 1, which was started by alleged arsonist Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, of Florida.
The Lachman Fire began “on land owned by the local Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority . . . and spread onto land owned by California State Parks (Topanga State Park),” according to a federal indictment against Rinderknecht.
Local firefighters put out that fire in the wee hours of New Year’s Day, and came back on Jan. 2 to make sure it was fully extinguished.
But according to text messages first unearthed by the Los Angeles Times, they were ordered to leave “even though they complained the ground was still smoldering and rocks remained hot to the touch.”
That was likely a fateful decision.
Investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives later determined that the fire continued within the root structure of plants “approximately 20 feet south” of the original blaze.

Fires like this can spread underground in dry climates, and that's what happened here.

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The problem was that political considerations, whatever those may have been, rode roughshod over the testimony of firefighters, professionals who actually know their business. In a sane system, authorities would have listened to the people trained and experienced in dealing with these situations.

But that's not what happened here.

In a sane system, the Newsom administration's policies would have been to default to the judgment of the firefighters on the ground.

But that's not what happened here.

In a sane system, the Lachman fire would have been well and truly extinguished, and the firefighters would have remained on the scene until that fact was confirmed beyond doubt.

But that's not what happened here.

Pacific Palisades burned because of this.

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