{"id":619308,"date":"2026-02-27T06:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/619308\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:35:23","slug":"palisades-fire-ignition-blaze-was-never-put-out-according-to-la-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/619308\/","title":{"rendered":"Palisades fire ignition blaze was never put out according to LA firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire crews were ordered to leave the Lachman fire before it was fully extinguished \u2014 with it later reigniting into the horrific <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/us-news\/the-palisades-are-still-a-wasteland-wrapped-in-red-tape-a-year-after-los-angeles-promised-to-help-rebuild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palisades fire<\/a>, a firefighter has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Pike said he was blown off by a captain when he warned there were five areas still smoking at the site that were too hot to touch with his gloves on.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came in a lawsuit \u2014 which city lawyers tried to block from being made public \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/10\/us-news\/judge-clears-way-for-mega-lawsuit-blaming-la-and-california-for-deadly-palisades-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed by victims of the inferno<\/a> against Los Angeles and California.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7716263;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38619448\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-8.55.27\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"A man in a dark blue uniform with an &quot;AFD&quot; badge on his chest speaks.\" class=\"wp-image-38619448\"  \/>Scott Pike said he was blown off by a captain when he warned there were five areas still smoking at the site that were too hot to touch with his gloves on.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-26\/la-firefighter-testifies-that-lachman-fire-was-not-fully-put-out-when-crews-were-ordered-to-leave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>, Pike said: \u201cI didn\u2019t even want to use my gloved hand because it was hot, so I just kicked it with my boot to kind of expose it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was like <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/19\/us-news\/malibu-sues-la-over-palisades-fire-a-hollowed-out-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">red hot like coals<\/a> that was still smoldering, and I even heard crackling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThat\u2019s how I approached him, is like, \u2018Hey, Cap \u2026 We have hot spots in general. We have some ash pits.\u2019 That\u2019s an alert to double check the whole area and maybe we need to switch our tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNews Alerts\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to get the best stories straight to your inbox.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for subscribing\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>He claimed other members of his team as well as the captain seemed eager to leave the site and said he regrets no one listened to him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38619450\" width=\"734\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2025-least-five-people-killed-120975268_f3d69a.jpg\" alt=\"A beach house in Malibu, California engulfed in flames as the Palisades Fire burns.\" class=\"wp-image-38619450\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\"  \/>\u201cThere was like red hot like coals that was still smoldering, and I even heard crackling.\u201d AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The LAFD claims the Lachman fire was completely extinguished by January 2 and it gets little mention in an after-action report, which Pike said he was not asked to contribute to.<\/p>\n<p>The Palisades fire quickly exploded just days later on January 5, wiping out thousands of homes and leaving 12 dead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews were ordered to leave the Lachman fire before it was fully extinguished \u2014 with it later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":619309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2809,4216,2961,224,5337,5248,1154,5609],"class_list":{"0":"post-619308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-wildfires","11":"tag-fires","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-metro","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116141210083237168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}