On January 7, 2025, I sat in gridlock for four hours watching the Palisades Fire roar through everything behind me — my neighborhood, my daughter’s preschool, the streets where I grew up.

When firefighters reached the flames, they grabbed the hydrants and got nothing. No pressure. Reservoirs dry. In a state with one of the largest wildfire prevention budgets on the planet, our firefighters were sent into an inferno with empty hoses.

My daughter is four. She was three when the fire came. One day she is going to ask me how this happened — how a state this prepared, with this much funding, watched her preschool burn to the ground while fire trucks ran dry.

She deserves an answer. So does every family that lost a home, a school, a neighbor.

That answer starts with one question: Where did the money go?

California has poured billions into wildfire prevention. The state fire budget has exploded over the past decade — hundreds of millions earmarked for preparedness, infrastructure, and suppression. And yet when the Palisades Fire tore through one of the densest neighborhoods in Los Angeles County, the water infrastructure didn’t just stumble. It failed. Completely. Publicly. In front of the entire world.

I am demanding a full, independent, public audit of California’s wildfire prevention spending — and a clear, line-item answer to whether any of those billions ever reached the water infrastructure that failed us on January 7.

The families of Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and every community gutted by the January 2025 fires deserve more than a press release. More than a sanitized agency review. They deserve a full, public, line-by-line accounting.

This is not partisan. This is not political. This is the most basic demand a citizen can make of a government: show us where our money went.

Californians of every background, every party, every belief paid into a system that was supposed to protect them. That system failed. And the people who paid for it — with their taxes, many of them with their homes — are owed the truth.

Sign this petition to demand the California State Legislature commission an independent, public audit of wildfire prevention spending — with full results released to the public. No redactions. No spin. Just answers.

As fire season heats back up across California, the truth is too important to ignore.

I confronted Governor Newsom in the ashes of my daughter’s preschool. His answer was deflection. Mine is this petition.

I am not going away. Neither should you. Sign with me — before the next fire.