The Times also reported that before the fires, LAFD leaders decided not to deploy nine fire engines to fire-prone areas like the Pacific Palisades — deciding instead to keep them in position in ...

Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing for the kind of dangerous winds that could drive flames across hillsides and canyons and tear through neighborhoods from ...

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 ...

But several former chiefs with deep experience in LAFD tactics said most of the more than 40 available engines could have been pre-deployed to fire zones before the Palisades blaze started ...

“You would have had a better chance to get a better result if you deployed those engines,” former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford told the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles fire bosses ...

But several former chiefs with deep experience in LAFD tactics said most of the more than 40 available engines could have been predeployed to fire zones before the Palisades blaze started ...

As a proud 35-year veteran and current captain with the Los Angeles Fire Department ... hundreds of our firefighters and dozens of our fire engines and trucks were dispatched to fight the ...

"With that we even pulled on additional resources internally within the Los Angeles Fire Department to add five engines and one battalion chief. That is above and beyond what we would do on a red ...