The request, which represents a more than 15% increase over this year’s budget, includes money for 179 new firefighting ...

A fire erupted Friday evening on the container ship “One Henry Hudson” docked at the Port of Los Angeles, sending more than ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles Fire Department Deputy Chief Jaime Moore said he's all in on fully investigating how the fire department handled the Lachman Fire, which smoldered and turned into the ...

Mayoral candidate Austin Beutner says L.A.’s 911 system sends paramedics to too many non-emergency calls, slowing response times.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At least one LAFD official knew that firefighters had been ordered to pack up their hoses and leave the scene of ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- "We have no faith" in the Los Angeles City Fire Department to investigate itself. That's the message in a scathing letter claiming to be sent from both current ...

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At least one Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) official knew firefighters were ordered to leave the Lachman Fire site, which burned just days before the Pacific Palisades blaze, according to the Los ...

A new report in the Los Angeles Times indicates that firefighters were ordered to abandon the smoldering underground fire that later became the devastating Palisades Fire, something the crews on the ...

Mayor Karen Bass on Friday called for a full investigation into firefighters’ accounts that Los Angeles Fire Department crews were ordered to leave a smoldering canyon days before flames reignited ...