JAKARTA - A number of questions arose regarding the handling of the Los Angeles (LA) fire. Including members of the LA or LAFD firefighters who were deployed.
However, LAFD Head Kristin Crowley was reluctant to reveal this. He emphasized that LAFD's main focus on placing refugees affected.
"We will tell you the amount, where, I think it's important to talk about the pre-placement side," Crowley told CBS News, Wednesday, January 16 local time.
Crowley further blamed the budget cuts experienced by the LA Fire Department which resulted in a lack of resources.
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The LA fire started when the fire broke out and spread to the Pacific Palisades neighborhood at around 10.30 am on January 7. Only 19 cars were deployed to the location.
CBS News, which was at the scene at the start of the fire, said that for four hours there was not a single LA firefighter at the scene.
It took eight hours for the LA Damkar to send directions to all of its personnel who were not tasked with calling on their availability to deal with the LA fire which began in Pacific Palisades.
Both Crowley and LA Regency Fire Chief Anthony Marrone with strong winds Santa Ana overwhelmed LA firefighters in handling fires at Pacific Palisades.
To date, fires in LA have scorched more than 60 square miles of forest and property areas, killing at least 25 people and destroying more than 12,000 buildings.
"The action we took before the strong winds broke out would make the biggest difference, because we all realized there were not enough fire engines, there were not enough firefighters, to extinguish the intense fires that moved quickly and were driven by the wind we saw on Tuesday," said Marrone.
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