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 ...

With the tempest expected to hit on Dec. 1 that year, LAFD commanders ordered up at least 40 extra fire engines for stations closest to the areas where the fire hazards were greatest, including ...

Bracing for another round of extreme fire weather conditions, Los Angeles Fire Department officials on Monday had staffed all of its available extra engines and staged 30 engines in fire risk ...

“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 ...

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Firefighters battle the Palisades fire on El Medio Avenue. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

Officials said they moved more engines “first thing in the morning” to also cover northeast L.A. The Times’ findings come as LAFD officials continue to assert that the firefighting effort ...