40: PREVIEW: Palisades Fire Scandal: Allegations of LA Fire Department Negligence and Cover-Up Guest: Jeff Bliss Jeff Bliss reports on new information revealed in an amended lawsuit filed against state and city entities regarding the massive Pacific Palisades
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
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Guest: Jeff Bliss
Jeff Bliss reports on new information revealed in an amended lawsuit filed against state and city entities regarding the massive Pacific Palisades fire that started on January 1st and burned through January 2nd. The revelation, coming ten or eleven months after the incident, is that firemen on the scene saw the smoldering fire but were obliged to leave. Whistleblowers and radio transmissions confirmed that the fire department was called off the original fire and sent home despite firemen recognizing the danger: the fire was still smoldering, abundant vegetation was present, and high winds were forecast. Because firefighters drove away from the smoldering fire, it reignited on January 6th, leading to the massive conflagration that destroyed an entire neighborhood. Bliss notes that the lawsuit is expected to be a "real bloodbath" because it points to negligence by the LA Fire Department and the state of California. It remains unknown whether the mayor or governor knew about the decision to pull the fire department from the scene.
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| 0:36.1 | This is John Batchel, speaking to Pacific Watch himself, Jeff Bliss, about new information. |
| 0:41.3 | Just revealed 10 months, 11 months after the fire, |
| 0:49.4 | early January 25, in the palisades that the fireman on the scene saw the smoldering and were obliged to leave. Jeff explains, there's much more to learn about this. We knew about the smoldering a couple |
| 0:55.9 | of weeks past. There was video of it. Leaving the smoldering on that hillside with the amount of |
| 1:02.4 | vegetation that remained and the high winds. Well, the formula is what we see today, which is a |
| 1:10.4 | wiped out neighborhood and a city in despair. |
| 1:14.6 | Jeff Bliss to explain. |
| 1:16.1 | More of this in coming weeks. |
| 1:18.5 | Here's the revelation. |
| 1:20.5 | Did the mayor know? |
| 1:21.5 | Did the governor know? |
| 1:23.0 | Unknown. |
| 1:23.7 | Many things to learn about. |
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