That’s how Battalion Chief Jed Horan would describe the destruction ... “Very chaotic,” says Chief Horan with the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District. “Houses were burning.

Okimoto is in a relationship with a manager at HFD, a battalion chief who is in charge of the helicopter unit. That unit got a new $10.6 million aircraft last year. Okimoto was not on the council ...

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