They Let Us Burn - Fire Rebuild

Hosted by: Jeremy Padawer
Details: PacificPalisades.com
RSVP: Action Network

Date: January 7, 2026 | Start: 10:30 AM | End: 12:30 PM
Location: Palisades Village, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 US

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Say it with me…
“They Let Us Burn.”
Join us. 1/7/2026 at 10:30am.

We’ve been gaslit.
We’ve been lied to.
We’ve been mischaracterized.
We’ve been burned to the ground.
We will now fight back.
We will fight back legally.
We will fight back in the media.
We will fight back ethically.
We are the earnest ones.
We’re NOT “opportunists” as Newsom stated.
We will fight…
Until we have transparency, accountability, honesty.

We will no longer quietly accept this as a community.

We trusted our leadership.

Yes. This smelled bad from the beginning. It smelled like gross negligence. Now it’s potentially evolved to something more than that….

If, after legal scrutiny, there’s a purposeful element to this, it will hurt me spiritually. Just hits to the core.

Newly revealed materials appear to point to a state-authored Wildfire Management Plan that favored a “let it burn” philosophy for certain state lands, including Topanga State Park, which borders communities tied to the Palisades Fire spread. Key suppression strategies were intentionally withheld from public view under “confidentiality protocols.”

The plan allegedly labeled specific zones as “Avoidance Areas,” where only “modified fire suppression” was permitted, RESTRICTING the use of heavy equipment, vehicles, and fire retardant during firefighting operations.

Internal communications cited in media reports claim firefighters were instructed to “consider allowing large logs to burn out” and even leave smoldering roots and underground materials during mop-up efforts.

Multiple sources suggest these limitations were shared secretly with Incident Command and fire officials, shaping operational decisions on the ground.

Texts from Los Angeles firefighters reportedly show that warnings about hot logs, burning roots, and unsafe smoldering conditions were raised and overruled before the Santa Ana winds arrived.

One attorney claimed that fire crews were forced to stop fully extinguishing the preceding Lachman Fire, identified by federal investigators as the origin point of the wider Palisades disaster.

Reports also indicate firefighters acknowledged they were ordered to halt normal mop-up protocols.

Governor Gavin Newsom has denied any state wrongdoing.

…Just like Newsom and Bass originally claimed this was a natural disaster or climate change.

…Just like Newsom stated the lawsuit was brought by “opportunists.”

The lawsuit, upcoming discovery, and our community will ultimately uncover the entire truth.

If this were not a government institution, we’d be talking about CRIMINALITY.

Please join us.

1/7/2026 at 10:30am.
To communicate our needs, to acknowledge our grievances, to speak truth to power.

They absolutely did.
They LET Us Burn.

RSVP –
https://actionnetwork.org/events/they-let-us-burn

(Will provide specifics on Palisades location closer to event)

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