The cause of last week’s Getty Fire — which burned about 25 acres near the 405 — has not been determined.
But business owners near Sepulveda Boulevard say a nearby homeless encampment is responsible.
The businesses say homeless people settled there years ago and have been creating problems ever since. Video from Fox 11 shows tents with trash piled up behind a strip mall.
One business owner says she has complained to the city three times — but no one will address it.
There is no official word that the Getty Fire was tied to the encampment, but there is history here.
In 2017, the Skirball Fire was started by an illegal cooking fire at a homeless encampment in the same corridor. That fire burned 422 acres, destroyed six homes and damaged 12 others.
