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Assistant Fire Chief Joe Everett, who helps oversee LAFD’s West Bureau, which includes Pacific Palisades, said firefighters conducted a cold trailing operation at the site in which crews felt for any lingering heat along the fire’s edge, dug out every live spot, and trenched in the fire’s edges to ensure that nothing could later flare up.

Judge Steven Everett told Burrows at the sentencing on Wednesday: "You are a despicable man".

Judge Everett said Burrows had given "awful" evidence, particularly a claim that there were "good paedophiles and bad paedophiles".

Judge Everett said: "I'm glad it's closed. One can only hope that places like that are never ever opened again."

Judge Everett said: "What is telling is, first of all, nothing was done at the time and secondly as a result you went on to commit serious sexual abuse on a whole range of other boys."