Charleston Fire Tragedy--politics as usual

The City of Charleston has politicked its way out of admitting any wrong-doing in the June 18 blaze at the Super Sofa store that killed nine firefighters. You'd think that if nine people died, somebody (or a whole lot of somebodies) did something horribly wrong. Although the Charleston Fire Department seems intent on improving to hopefully avoid another tragedy like this, isn't the first step in recovery always to admit there is a problem?