The Los Angeles Fire Department has less than one firefighter for every 1,000 residents, with a staffing rate of 0.90, a Bay ...
Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley asked for full-time employees to augment a mostly volunteer brush-clearing crew two ...
The devastating fires in Los Angeles are revealing just how deeply ill-prepared the city was for a disaster of such magnitude. While nobody can ever be fully […] ...
The city later restored money to the LAFD budget after negotiations with the fire union in November. “We all know that residents residing in any residential wildland urban interface are at risk ...
After a weekend of reprieve allowing fire teams to continue making progress battling the deadly infernos burning in Los ...
By the following week, it destroyed thousands of structures, decimated whole communities, killed at least eight people and became the most destructive wildland ... The Los Angeles Fire Department ...
In a memo that has not been previously reported, chief told city fire commissioners that L.A. relied almost entirely on ...
CNN has reached out to the Los Angeles Fire Department for comment on the memo. “The Mayor quadrupled the allocation for wildland hand crews – fully resourcing our LAFD has always been a ...
CNN has reached out to the Los Angeles Fire Department for comment on the memo. “The Mayor quadrupled the allocation for wildland hand crews – fully resourcing our LAFD has always been a ...
Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s fire chief Kristin M. Crowley identified “one ...