Richter, who supervised the Camp Fire Boss, who is now suing Ladwp

Jay Gandhi, a retired federal judge who acted as a mediator in settlements with Pacific Gas & Electric regarding the camp, butte and North Bay, joins a lawsuit against Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power.

Gandhi also conveyed settlements with Southern California Edison after the fire of Woolsey, Thomas and Koenigstein and the Montecito debris.

Although he has experience in the mediation of forest fire negotiations, this time it is more personal – Gandhi and his family lost their home in the Palisades Fire in January. He joins the legal team of the lawsuit and focuses on making the city to be responsible for taking responsibility, his family, neighbors and friends who are affected by the fire.

“It was a feeling of security and security that rose in Rauch on January 7,” said Gandhi on Tuesday and announced his participation against the background of his charred property.

Gandhi joins a lawsuit that was submitted on January 13, which now represents more than 750 fire brigade plaintiffs. The current judge of the US district court, Dean Pregson, who also lost his home in the fire, also joined the lawsuit.

The lawsuit focuses on the lack of water in the palisades and claims that two reservoirs were not full for public use in the region, and claims that the LADWP -IEHEAD current lines were supplied with energy instead of carrying out a final saving that other large supply companies in the federal state do during the red flag warnings. At the time of the Palisad Fire there was a red flag warning.

“When this public use was most urgently needed, the Santa Ynez Reservoir was empty after he had been out of order since February 2024 and was waiting for repairs until cover.

The three tanks on which the area had to rely on, the Marquez -hnolls, the trailer and the Temescal armor were empty until the end of the day that the fire started.

“With these reservoirs outside the commission, hydrants failed in Pacific Palisades after three (3) tanks, each with one million gallons water, were dry within 12 hours,” the complaint said.

LADWP officials recognize the enormous damage to the fire. But they pushed the allegations back and said that the supply company’s systems had been diligently managed.

“It is expected that the plaintiffs will comply with complaints at this early stage to receive their claims,” ​​says a explanation of the utility company. “Long defined right and precedent prevent water supply companies, and their interest payers, which are liable for forest fire losses. Fire regulations and supervisory authorities determine the capacity of public water systems to combat fires, and the LADWP system exceeded these standards.”

The lawyers of the Munger, Tolles & Olson pension company, a law firm in Los Angeles, are based on a decision by the Supreme Court of 1911 to defend them against several lawsuits that blame the care companies for more to have the water. Simply expressed, lawyers argue that the supply company has no contract for the provision of the water.

“The California courts have long rejected tests to provide water supply companies for the failure to combat water for the fight against fires and prompted a certain contract,” wrote LADWP lawyer in a document presented to the court.

In January, the senior general manager of the LADWP performance system, David Hanson, found that the agency’s sales groups in the Palisades region are underground.

“Ladwp ​​has an overhead line in the area, an overhead subtransmission line of 34.5 kV-die Royal-Monte Grande 1 line, which runs about a quarter mile of the reported origin of the palisades fire. Hanson and the anomalies, according to which the Time of Timing Time of Time of the Payisades, the Hansonia, after the proposal of the Palisades, after the preliminary speeches, after the pale of the palisades, after the pale of the palisades, in which the Palisades and the Pasteles, according to the Palen of the Hansona, and in The areas of January 28th

Hanson said the line would turn off and not reinstalled if errors were found, but that the line did not stumble offline at the time of the fire.

Governor Gavin Newsom, who describes the lack of water as “deeply worrying”, has ordered an independent examination of the LADWP management of the reservoir and the water system.

The lawsuit submitted by Robertson and Associates and Foley Behle & Curtis and now from Gandhi found that witnesses and media recorded sparks that fly from power lines and that the efforts of the firefighters were hindered by the above light lines of light pipes.

The lawsuit calls for a legal proceedings for the matter.

Gandhi believes that the fire was avoidable and that the process could be a “piece of” part of the reimbursement for those who have lost fire, companies or both in the palisades. There are precedents to hold a water disc that is responsible for forest fire damage, he said.

He referred to Itani against Yorba Linda Water District, a case against the Water District, which was submitted to Orange County after a running fire from 2008 and which were awarded to the plaintiffs, which included many homeowners, almost 70 million US dollars. The plaintiffs argue that the decision of Yorba Linda is more relevant than the case of 1911, which the lawyers lean on.

“The city has to get up and claim responsibility and do the residents of the palisades properly. And that’s why I joined this fight,” said Gandhi.

He focuses on the lessons that can be learned from the fire.

“(We need) lessons that are learned, so mistakes are not repeated. For example, there is no reason why reservoirs should not be cared for over a year. Teaching is a preliminary deposit when a weather warning of this size is. “Monetary I help the palisades to rebuild what they have lost. I think the first step for the city is to increase some of them.

In this situation, the insurance is not sufficient, the lawyers who submitted the lawsuit. The lawsuit is not only financially, but in relation to future changes, so that the supply of supply of the supply protocol and a similar situation does not occur again.

“All of our customers are under insured by millions of dollars,” said Alex Robertson, member of the Co-Counsel. Many had only used a minimal insurance company through California’s fair plan or had terminated their insurance.

“Many people who have not lost through the house believe that the insurance will cover 100% of the loss. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Here in the palifornia, homeowners have canceled the guidelines for homeowners in 2024,” said Robertson.

Gandhi hopes that it will be incomplete for him and many homeowners, no valuable objects, collections that contained memories, rooms that they wanted to share with the coming generations, a form of justice is achieved by the lawsuit.

“What happened is a wrong story that this was a kind of anomaly, but it is not. It is a manifestation of risks that have been known, but ignored. And the city has to acknowledge it. Because it cannot happen again. It cannot burn down in another city,” said Gandhi.