Why Wasn't This Westlake Fire on the LAFD Alerts Page?
I received a text from Father Dylan on Thursday night, alerting me to a fire at a boarded-up house in Westlake. Whenever I receive a tip about anything in Westlake, I know it’s going to break my heart.
I checked LAFD’s Alerts page for more information, but curiously, I found nothing. As of this writing, there still isn’t an alert on the page for this particular fire.
Since there are four videos of the fire on Citizen, the fire must have taken place. Why wasn’t it listed on the alerts page?
I have yet to find anything in local news outlets regarding Thursday’s fire, but that doesn’t surprise me. Westlake, formerly one of the city’s nicest neighborhoods, tends to get ignored by the media (unless there’s a sensational story) and tends to get ignored by the city (except for when politicians want to pay lip service to the idea of cleaning it up).