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Well, let's get right to it.

Roger Bailey is the attorney for many thousands of homeowners in the Palisades, whose

homes were destroyed in the Lockman turned Palisades fire, first week of January.

And there was a hearing this morning at 10 o'clock because they're filing a massive civil

lawsuit against many entities on behalf of the thousands of homeowners.

And Roger sent us last night a, the plan from the California Department of Parks and Recreation on how they deal with fires and

fire suppression within the park.

And it looks as if, according to their own words, the California State Parks Department

prefers to let Topanga State Park burn in a wildfire event. They would rather

have happened what happened as opposed to suppressing it, putting it out. Let's get Roger Bailey

on. Roger, how are you? Good, good. It's stunning, isn't it, John? When you read those words in print, it almost seems like it's a typo.

Yes. Well, you sent me in red the highlighted paragraphs to look at, and I still didn't believe it.

I went through the document itself in black and white, and I highlighted it in yellow for myself,

and I keep looking at it.

And it's like, yeah, unless otherwise specified, it's page 15, state parks prefers to let Topanga State Park burn in a wildfire event.

And then on page 20, the majority of the park has not burned it over 50 years to restore the natural fire event. And then on page 20, the majority of the park has not burned in over 50 years

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