| 2025 Palisades Fire Fact Sheet - LACoFD Community Risk Reduction (Fire Rebuilds) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claim | Fact Check | Evidence | ||
| I001 | All Fire Victims with an Access Road can Rebuild | FALSE | As a condition for rebuilding, the LACoFD Community Risk Reduction standard mandates a 20-foot-wide access road with a turnaround. This width is required to allow two fire trucks to pass each other, even though this specific situation will never (and has never) occured during a fire. | coming soon |
| I002 | The Fire Department is responsible for maintaining the fire hydrants on your fire rebuild | FALSE | As a condition for rebuilding, LACoFD Community Risk Reduction mandates that fire hydrants meet specific fire flow requirements. This rule persists despite the fact that hydrants went unused during both the 2018 Woolsey Fire and the 2025 Palisades Fire. | coming soon |
| I003 | LADWP (Palisades) and SCE (Malibu) are responsible for undergrounding utility lines | FALSE | As a condition for rebuilding, LACoFD Community Risk Reduction requires residents to underground power lines and utility poles at their own expense. | coming soon |
| I004 | LAFD and LACoFD are knowledgable and understand their own code | FALSE | Both high ranking officials (Fire Marshalls and Fire Chiefs) and lower level employees (Fire Fighter Specialists) with LACoFD are not aware and do not know fire codes and rebuilding codes for fire victims. | coming soon |
| I005 | LAFD and LACoFD are sympathetic to fire victims by waiving permit fees and honoring previous agreements | FALSE | LACoFD Community Risk Reduction has been observed in meetings, through emails, and calls laughing at fire victims, reneging on written agreements, charging for multiple conflicting rounds of permit revisions, and giving separate set of rules for different people. | coming soon |