A local House member says he will ask Congress to launch an inquiry next month into the U.S. Forest Service's response to the Station fire, including a decision to withhold water-dropping aircraft during the critical second day of the blaze.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) made the announcement after The Times reported Monday that records contradict the Forest Service's position that steep terrain prevented the agency from using helicopters and tanker planes to attack the fire in the hours before it began raging out of control.

Schiff said he would propose that a panel of the House Appropriations Committee conduct the inquiry, and that he would like to participate in the hearing. He said that with winter storms turning burned hillsides into rivers of mud, the damage inflicted by the fire continues to mount.

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