City Officials Push Back on Claims Voiced Against Deputy Chief Tom Clemo

In response to allegations from the firefighters at the Bear Gulch Fire who witnessed two of their fellow firefighters/fire crew detained, the City of Santa Monica issued a statement. This is the statement in full.

The city of Santa Monica issued a statement Friday correcting recent inaccurate media reports suggesting that Deputy Fire Chief Tom Clemo coordinated with federal immigration enforcement agents during the Bear Gulch Fire response in Washington state.

In late August, Deputy Chief Clemo was assigned as Incident Commander of the California Interagency Incident Management Team 7 to assist with firefighting efforts in the Olympic National Forest. All operations at the Bear Gulch Fire were under the jurisdicti

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