Internal reports that the Orange County Fire Authority bungled its initial response to the Canyon Fire 2 are prompting Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson to ask colleagues for an independent investigation of the fire that burned 9,200 acres and destroyed or damaged nearly 60 homes around Anaheim Hills.
“There’s a lot of stuff out there and some of it is not adding up,” Nelson said Sunday, Oct. 22. “We need to find out what’s going on over there.
“We have a right to answers,” he added. “And, right now, I don’t know who to believe.” Among the questions Nelson wants investigated:
• Did the Orange County Fire Authority respond correctly when it first was told of a possible fire in the canyon on the morning of Oct. 9?
Documents obtained by Southern California News Group show that the Fire Authority’s initial response was to send a single fire engine, without lights and sirens, a response known as a “smoke check.”