New York Post27d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
The essential firefighting vehicles were still sitting in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau ... A fire fighting engine in for repairs at the Los Angeles depot. It is among at least ...
USA Today22d
No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department has said the claim is false. The department has a single electric fire engine, acquired in 2022, and it has no electric fire trucks. Claim that ...
Firehouse6d
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 ...
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 ...
CBS News 827d
San Diego ranks behind Los Angeles in firefighter staffing levels per capita
SAN DIEGO — As wildfires devastated Los Angeles, city leaders there have been criticized for an understaffed fire department and ... No. But every single fire engine and every single firefighter ...
KTLA24d
Suspects allegedly posing as firefighters in Palisades had fake fire engine
LOS ANGELES ... Fire evacuation zone in what appeared to be a legitimate fire engine, officials announced Sunday. In a news release, officials with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said ...
Yahoo News24d
Couple driving ‘fake fire engine’ arrested trying to enter Palisades fire evacuation zone
A convicted arsonist and his wife were arrested after they were spotted driving a decommissioned fire engine inside the Palisades ... of an evacuation zone in fire-ravaged Los Angeles, the LA County ...
CBS News29d
Los Angeles police chief details 3 arson arrests outside of wildfire zones
The Los Angeles Police Department has ... The LAPD has arrested 14 people in or near fire zones and the sheriff's department has arrested 39. Not all of the arrests were made for looting or ...
Los Angeles Times25d
Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time
Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing ... shift of firefighters that day would have made more engine crews available, Crawford said. “I would have been more ...
AOL29d
L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn't
As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and ...
KERO-TV23d
KCFD return home after battling the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles
(KERO) — Following the deadly fires burning in Los ... County Fire Department that returned from the Palisades Fire. With less than one year on the job, McDonald spent 12 days in Los Angeles ...
ABC728d
Palisades Fire: LAFD chief addresses pre-deployment decisions prior to blaze
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley ... We're still waiting to learn how long it took for the first engine to arrive at the Palisades Fire, but the LAFD says ...