Mayor Karen Bass claims that she did not edit the LAFD’s after-action report on the Palisades Fire to shield the department and the city from responsibility.

She admits, however, that she told the authors to check information about weather and budgets.

That sounds like it might have been benign — until you consider that weather and budgets are at the core of what went wrong last January.

The National Weather Service predicted an extreme high wind event, with life-threatening winds, days before January 7. The mayor knew about these predictions and left the country anyway.

Ultimately, the high winds reignited the blaze known as the Lachman Fire, which had been set by an arsonist on January 1, and which firefighters did not fully extinguish.

The LAFD made decisions not to pre-deploy fully on January 6, partly due to........

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