Jaime Moore fields questions from City Council members before being confirmed as chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department on Nov. 14. Los Angeles Fire Chief Jaime Moore admitted Tuesday that his department’s after-action report on the Palisades fire was watered down to shield top brass from scrutiny. The report’s author, LAFD Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, declined to endorse it because of substantial deletions that altered his findings. The immediate and most pressing crisis is the Palisades After Action Report,” LAFD Assistant Chief Kairi Brown wrote in an email to eight other people. He said that LAFD officials “genuinely believed the fire was fully extinguished.”“That was based on the information, conditions, and procedures in place at that moment.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 06, 2026 22:22 UTC