To the editor:

One only needed to read the first sentence of Jim Pietrangelo's recent letter blaming Democrats for the Palisades fire to encounter the first false statement. He said, "There are more than one million residential fires every year in America." According to U.S. Fire Administration statistics, in 2023 there were 352,000 residential fires, a decrease of eight percent from 2022.

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