First, over how well it planned for the devastating winds that fueled the Palisades Fire.
More recently, questions have swirled about whether it properly watched the Lachman Fire burn scar days prior, which eventually sparked the massive disaster.
On Tuesday, the head of a civilian panel tasked with overseeing LAFD said the panel is failing to be a check on the department.
"I can tell you that 10 years ago, it was a successful check," said Board of Fire Commissioners President Genethia Hudley-Hayes. "Do I think we are doing a good job now? No."
The Board of Fire Commissioners is made up of five civilians with a staff size of just one to audit LAFD. Hudley-Hayes wants to add three more staff members, including a special investigator.
"We are completely handicapped at this point," Hudley-Hayes told ABC7 On Your Side Investigates. "Those three positions are critical if, in fact, the city wants the Fire Commission to do its job."
But with new Fire Chief Jamie Moore in place, Hudley-Hays says this is still what she calls "the beginning" for the Commission.
"What were you not getting from previous chiefs that you wanted to get?" asked ABC7 On Your Side Investigative Reporter Kevin Ozebek.
"We weren't getting anything," answered Hudley-Hayes. "When I made the request of Chief Crowly on whether or not she was going to do an after-action review, she declined to do one."
Moore promised to work with the Commission and told anyone inside LAFD who has concerns to come to him directly.
Scathing letter slams LAFD's response to Lachman Fire
He addressed critical reporting, like stories ABC7 On Your Side Investigates has done on a letter claiming to be signed by "LAFD Chief Officers and Captains" saying they're "beyond ashamed" at department leadership since the L.A. Fires, and L.A. Times reporting that some firefighters who were at the Lachman mop-up have text messages showing they warned there were still hot spots at the burn scar.
"The audacity for people to make comments and say there are text messages out there that say that we did not put the fire out, that we did not extinguish the fire. Yet I have yet to see any of those text messages," Moore told Commissioners and those attending the meeting.
Mayor Karen Bass has tasked Moore with getting to the bottom of what happened at the Lachman scene.
She tells ABC7 on Your Side Investigates that Moore has these orders: "That he looks at the leadership from top to bottom and there is going to have to be significant evaluation and maybe even changes."
Regarding that allegation from Hudley-Hayes that former Chief Crowley did not want to do an after-action review -- that was one of the reasons Bass cited for firing Crowley as chief.
Eyewitness News reached out to Crowley on Tuesday and has yet to get a response.
But, in a legal claim she has filed against the city, Crowley demands the city retract all false and defamatory statements against her. She also called her firing "retaliation" for speaking the truth.