In addition to the news that the Station Fire Panel Discussion has been postponed, the LA Times has had two articles in the past two days discussing the Station Fire and further investigations into what really happened. Links are given below.
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Forest Service investigates withholding of key Station fire information
August 3, 2010 | 4:32 pm
The U.S. Forest Service has launched an inspector general’s investigation and invited Congress to order a broad inquiry into last summer’s disastrous Station fire, after the recent discovery that dispatch recordings from the critical early hours of the blaze were withheld from The Times and a federal review team.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/hed-for-station-fire-item-here.html
Federal inspector general launches probe of Station fire
By Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times
August 4, 2010
A federal inspector general has launched an investigation and the Obama administration has invited Congress to order a broad inquiry into last summer’s disastrous Station fire after learning that dispatch recordings had been withheld from a U.S. Forest Service review team.
The telephone recordings, from the critical early hours of the blaze, also were withheld from The Times, which requested them under the Freedom of Information Act.
The inspector general’s probe will focus on why the several days of recordings were not provided to The Times or turned over to the Forest Service inquiry, which concluded that the agency’s initial attack on the fire was proper.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-station-fire-20100804,0,7487167.story
