L.A. Sends Brush Clearance Notices to Palisades Property Owner — After Building Burned Down

The state and local authorities failed to clean the brush before the devastating Palisades fire, but the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is still sending notices to the owners of property destroyed to clear their own.

A property owner, Larry Larson, a partner of the association who had 111 Márquez Place, received a notice from the LAFD that warns him about the need to comply with throughout the year Responsibility ”(Original emphasis). LAFD also notified the buildings manager, separately, the need to renew the fire prevention certification of the building.

The building caught on January 8, the second day of the fire, according to the building manager, largely due to the lack of water in the hydrants for the lafd to use it.

Larson wrote to city officials, as well as the Los Angeles County Fire Department:

Maybe you didn’t hear, but the Los Angeles Fire Department could not inspect the brush in the hills of Pacific Palisades. As a result of the negligence of the fire departments, together with the lack of water in the city in fire hydrants, our 47 units apartments building, Pacific Jardines, burned on the ground. Approximately 100 tenants were displaced.

Therefore, there is nothing to inspect and there are no inspections due or request.

Larson told Breitbart News: “Do not send the inspectors after the fact, after everything is gone … the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
He said the city wanted to remove the brush from the earth that was now mainly debris. And he alleged that the city had neglected inspecting the authorization of brushes in the years before the fire.

Also destroyed in the fire that destroyed 111 Márquez Place were the last remains of the Bernheimer Gardensa Japanese garden that was popular at the beginning of the 20th century but was gradually destroyed Due to landslides, and was closed due to the strong anti -Japanese feeling when World War II exploded.