🔥 BREAKING: Palisades Fire Victims SUE Gavin Newsom and the State of California for “Negligence” 🔥

In a stunning development, victims of the catastrophic Palisades Fire are officially suing Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California, alleging gross negligence and failure to prevent the disaster that destroyed thousands of homes.

Lawyers for the victims say they’ve uncovered a “smoking gun.”

“January 2nd — 24 hours after firefighters declared the Lachman fire fully contained — this hiker video shows the blaze still smoldering,” one reporter explained. “You can see the smoke.”

According to the lawsuit, firefighters failed to fully extinguish the initial Lachman fire in the hills above the Palisades on New Year’s Eve.
Despite being declared contained by dawn, embers continued to burn underground and later reignited, sparking the devastating Palisades inferno.

“There’s no evidence that a single state employee did their job, followed their own policy manual, inspected that area, or knew these devastating winds were coming,” one of the victims’ attorneys said. “They just didn’t do their job. And we intend to hold the state of California responsible.”

The plaintiffs argue the California Department of Parks and Recreation violated its own protocols by failing to inspect the site, post a fire watch, or deploy thermal imaging — despite forecasts of high winds that ultimately fueled the re-ignition.

Governor Gavin Newsom has dismissed the lawsuit as political opportunism:

“The state didn’t start this fire — that was an arsonist,” Newsom said in a statement. “The state wasn’t responsible for responding to or monitoring the fire. Opportunistic plaintiffs’ attorneys are now going after the Department of Parks and Rec.”

But victims’ lawyers say that response is insulting.

“He threw the firefighters under the bus,” one attorney fired back. “He took no responsibility, completely dodged the issue of his own state agency failing to do the inspection.”

While federal prosecutors have already charged 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderneck with setting the initial Lachman blaze, attorneys for the victims insist the state’s negligence turned a small fire into a catastrophe.

Of roughly 7,000 homes destroyed, only 620 have been rebuilt. Thousands of families remain displaced more than a year later.

Even one TV anchor noted after viewing the footage:

“It’s pretty clear from that hiker’s video — the earlier fire was not out. That’s for sure.”

The case could test the limits of California’s government immunity laws, and if successful, mark a major legal reckoning for Newsom’s administration over wildfire prevention failures that have plagued the state for years.