Former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford told The Times that he would have taken the same approach to last week’s wind threat as Butler did in 2011. Crawford worked for the department for 33 ...

“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 ...

A third official then produced a document that said seven of the vehicles were put into service ... have been used before,' said former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford.

LAFD conducts a search for persons linked to a stranded utility truck in Pacoima wash, finding no one present.

"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 ...

A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle on the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles; driver hospitalized in fair condition.