Electric fire trucks did not factor in response to deadly LA blazes
Amid the deadly wildfires in Southern California, posts claimed the Los Angeles Fire Department was hindered by electric ...
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75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...
Fire Chief: Super Scoopers, choppers work – but were grounded during fierce California wildfire winds
The familiar, water-dropping aircraft are leased by the fire department from Quebec each year to help fend off California ...
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Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
The Los Angeles Fire Department has trucks, to be sure ... vehicle previously ordered by a dealer and passed down to the city as a favor, without any of the customizations that fire departments ...
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Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Vehicles Were in the Maintenance Yard During the Wildfires
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...
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‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
Another revealed that million-dollar fire trucks sat idle because budget cuts ... Up the coast from LA, the city of San Francisco boasts more than 1,800 firefighters for around 1.5 million ...
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Oregon Couple Due in Court Tomorrow on Charges of Posing as Firefighters in Fake Truck
Lawmakers want to make impersonating firefighters a felony as convicted arsonist Dustin Nehl, 31, and his wife Jenni, 44, an ...
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What to know about the LA Fire Department’s budget
City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo told the Los Angeles Times that overall fire department overtime increased in this year’s budget by nearly $18m. He said budget reductions did not limit the ...
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Did city, LAFD prepare enough for Palisades Fire? Here's what we know
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough to prepare in the days ahead of the deadly Palisades Fire. The fire department did not hold ...
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Fire officials defend pre-deployment of firefighters before catastrophic LA County fires
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Were enough firefighters at the ready before last week's fires broke out? Were they in the right places? Were they able to respond quick enough? Those are just a few ...