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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 ... fires to destroy entire communities, the L.A. Fire Department began moving its equipment to areas ...
Fox News2d
LA mayor's office silent on deputy who was in charge of fire dept., placed on leave for alleged bomb threat
As wildfires wreaked devastation across Los Angeles, the city official in charge of the fire department was out of ... City Hall earlier this year. LA Deputy Mayor Brian Williams’ Pasadena ...
New York Post6d
Tearful LA fire union prez warned of dangerous fire department understaffing last year: ‘Someone will die’
CNN At a commission meeting just last month, Escobar told LA city officials that short staffing in the Los Angeles Fire Department was “dire” adding that “someone will die,” according to a ...
Los Angeles Fire Department budget sustained cuts but saw overall increase
In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire ...
L.A. fire chief meets with mayor after saying the city failed her agency
Kristin Crowley, in multiple interviews, drew a connection between budget cuts to her department and the city’s struggle to ...
The claim: Los Angeles Fire Department is using women's handbags to put out California fires
The LAFD said the footage shows its team putting out a fire using canvas bags, which are part of the department's standard ...
L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in scores of extra firefighters and equipment in the hours before ...
CBS News5d
L.A. Fire Department brass face questions about slow response to Palisades Fire
Los Angeles ... of Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were initially held back from racing to the scene of the Palisades Fire when it first broke out last week in L.A.'s Pacific Palisades ...
New York Post4d
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 ... the chance of wildfires devastating Los Angeles and the need for more funding for the Fire Department to address it. LA DISTRICT 11 Over 7,500 firefighters ...
ABC73d
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 ...