"The audacity for people to make comments and say that there's text messages out there that says that we did not put the fire out, that we did not extinguish the fire," he told the Board of Fire Commissioners. "Yet I have yet to see any of those text messages."
"The most alarming thing to me is ... our members were not listened to, or they were not heard," he said last Wednesday."
Jaime Moore, on his second day as Los Angeles Fire Department chief, defended firefighters and criticized media coverage he called a 'smear.' A battalion chief ordered firefighters to leave the Jan. 1 Lachman fire burn area, which days later reignited into the deadly Palisades fire, despite crew complaints that the ground was still smoldering. Text messages between firefighters and a third party indicated crews had expressed concerns that the Lachman fire would reignite if left unprotected. Moore said he had not seen the alleged text messages and said he would review the LAFD response, without naming who would conduct the investigation. Moore had earlier acknowledged an understandable mistrust and that members felt unheard.
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