Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook's email adds to the growing evidence that city and LAFD officials attempted to burnish the LAFD’s image in a report that was meant to be an honest assessment of the ...

The complaints of the author, Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, reached Mayor Karen Bass’ office in mid-November, after the LAFD had publicly released the report.

For months, as victims pleaded for information, the Los Angeles Fire Department kept secret that its firefighters were ordered to stop mop-up operations on a small brushfire that continued to smolder ...

Firefighters quickly extinguished an auto-related fire within a Pacoima commercial building on Christmas, with no injuries ...

The deletions and revisions are likely to deepen concerns over the LAFD's ability to acknowledge its mistakes before and ...

At least one Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) official knew firefighters were ordered to leave the Lachman Fire site, which burned just days before the Pacific Palisades blaze, according to the Los ...