The revelations — unveiled in a criminal complaint and attached affidavit Wednesday charging the alleged arsonist, Jonathan Rinderknecht — raise questions about what the Los Angeles Fire Department could have done to prevent the conflagration.

Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing for the kind of dangerous winds that could drive flames across hillsides and canyons and tear through neighborhoods from Malibu to the Pacific Palisades to the San Fernando Valley.

LAFD and Mayor Karen Bass have not been cooperative in informing the public about their internal communications in response to January’s devastating fires. The mayor and her team refuse to answer questions from the press about the fires and the LAFD ...

After the Palisades fire ignited, top brass at the Los Angeles Fire Department were quick to say that they were hampered by broken fire engines and a lack of mechanics to fix them. If the roughly 40 fire engines that were in the shop had been repaired ...

A firefighter battles the Palisades fire as homes burn along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Jan. 8 (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The first 911 call came at 10:29 a.m., from a resident of Piedra Morada Drive in Pacific Palisades. Amid high winds, a ...