Top Officials Invited to Testify on Wildfires
State lawmakers have invited California’s top fire officials to testify in Glendale today at a hearing on the fires that damaged or destroyed nearly 600 homes and scorched more than 22,000 acres across the Southland last summer.
The hearing, called by Assembly Speaker Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles), acting chairman of the Joint Assembly / Senate Committee on Fire, Police, Emergency and Disaster Services, runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Brand Library on West Mountain Street.
State Fire Marshal James McMullen and the fire chiefs of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Riverside counties and the cities of Los Angeles and Glendale are scheduled to speak.
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