Letters to the Editor: Months after fires, is it time to come together or to hold the government accountable?

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Residents of fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades clash over whether to unite with City Hall for recovery or demand accountability for cascading response failures.

Letters cite an empty reservoir, a fire chief unaware of holdover fires and leadership breakdowns echoing the 2018 Woolsey fire disaster.

One writer proposes a decentralized civil defense approach to emergencies, arguing that centralized response has consistently failed since the 1961 Bel Air fire.

To the editor : When disaster strikes, our instinct is to assign blame — and in Pacific Palisades, that blame has landed on City Hall ( “In fire-scorched Palisades, a library and rec center become linchpins of fury with City Hal