In fact, on Thursday – just one day after the Palisades Fire began – the LAFD received more than 6,500 emergency calls for service throughout the city that generated more than 3,500 incidents ...
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley said that the City of Los Angeles failed its residents after failing to properly fund the fire department.
The arm of the Los Angeles Fire Department in charge of preventing wildfires faced years of allegations of corruption, laziness, harassment and discrimination before the blazes that have ...
City Councilman John Lee says the north and west San Fernando Valley had extra engines in place: “I spoke to different people within LAFD and received information that we had pre-deployment in ...
As a proud 35-year veteran and current captain with the Los Angeles Fire Department, I’ve never experienced the devastation that we're seeing in LA today, where thousands of structures and more ...
As a result, if you just compare the LAFD’s budget last year to this year’s, it looks like it went down $23M. But that’s because when the budget was adopted last May or June, the city was ...
The Palisades fire has spurred criticism of the LAFD’s first female and LGBTQ leader. After Crowley called out City Hall over a lack of funding, union leaders say they back her “110%” With ...