Los Angeles Fire Department budget sustained cuts but saw overall increase
In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire ...
Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
Los Angeles has been beset by fires this year, and it seems like every fire department around has done everything it can to ...
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Watch: Los Angeles Fire Department truck stuck in mud
Video shared by FOX 11 in Los Angeles shows firefighters trying to dig out a fire truck after it became stuck in mud after ...
From fire alerts to flood watches: Rain brings relief to Southern California firefighters, but with a caveat
Rain was falling across Southern California on Sunday, bringing some relief to thousands of firefighters who have been ...
Why Los Angeles was unprepared for this fire
In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped ...
No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was ...
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Earlier California fire shows how Los Angeles could rebuild
LOS ANGELES, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Seven years before wildfires tore through opposite ends of the Los Angeles area, the Tubbs Fire in Northern ... a State Department spokesperson told Fox Business ...
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Much-needed rain in Los Angeles triggers mudslides, debris wildfire-ravaged areas
The Los Angeles Fire Department said it responded to reports of a debris flow in Woodland Hills, trapping several vehicles in the mud and other debris that rushed down the hillside. Videos showed ...
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Like Los Angeles, San Jose and Oakland Need Firefighters
The Los Angeles Fire Department has less than one firefighter for every 1,000 residents, with a staffing rate of 0.90, a Bay Area News Group analysis found. The rate at the Oakland Fire Department ...
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Kumho donates $100,000 to LA wildfire relief
ATLANTA — Kumho Tire U.S.A has donated $100,000 to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation for immediate use in wildfire disaster relief and recovery efforts supporting evacuees and first responder ...
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Crashes and Disasters
The devastating fires that continue to burn in Los Angeles and rank among California’s deadliest and most destructive in history exposed long-festering complaints that the city fire department ...