Los Angeles fire bosses deployed a just fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five the 40 available fire engines and ...
We have over 100 fire apparatus out of service,” Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley admitted when the wildfires were ...
The department has a single electric fire engine, acquired in 2022, and it has no electric fire trucks. Margaret Stewart, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson, told Lead Stories that the claim ...
A rumor that half of LA's fire trucks are electric and they have to go back to the firehouse to recharge every eight to ten ...
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough to prepare in the days ahead of the deadly Palisades Fire.
LAFD’s helicopter pilots were ready to go. Using five medium-sized twin-engine helicopters, pilots, including Prince, battled heavy winds, while hovering 50 to 100 feet over steep terrain to ...
New questions are being raised ... the north and west San Fernando Valley had extra engines in place: “I spoke to different people within LAFD and received information that we had pre-deployment ...