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 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 ...
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Fire department funding and recruitment policy come under scrutiny as deadly Los Angeles blazes rage on
As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County, a cut to the ... The data shows the department needs 62 additional fire stations, according to the fire chief.
LA fire department failed to deploy 1,000 fighters and dozens of engines in advance of devastating blaze
A damning new report claims the Los Angeles Fire Department refused to deploy 1,000 firefighters and dozens of water-carrying ...
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‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
“If we cut one position, if we close one station … the residents ... including from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, which covers areas outside the city, including hard-hit Altadena.
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Los Angeles Fire Department budget sustained cuts but saw overall increase
LOS ANGELES -- Amidst confusion around budget cuts affecting the Los Angeles Fire ... FOX station on Friday, Crowley responded after being repeatedly asked if the city failed her and her ...
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Los Angeles Fire Department comes under attack as fire continues to rage
(CNN) — As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County ... The data shows the department needs 62 additional fire stations, according to the fire chief.
LAFD is doing all we can to fight LA fires. But we're dangerously understaffed. | Opinion
We can, and will, get through these devastating fires. But as part of the recovery, Los Angeles is going to have to make some ...
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Ex-Los Angeles sheriff blasts wokeness crippling city’s wildfire response: ‘Disaster is not the fires, it’s this ideology’
Some have criticized the Los Angeles Fire ... department’s stations. The Board of Supervisors cut 1,281 positions in 2020,” he told The Post. “Every single LA City and LA County appointment ...
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Los Angeles Wildfires: Deputies Warned to Decontaminate over Toxic Air
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in Atladena were told to wear masks and decontaminate uniforms because the air was "hazardous, containing lead, asbestos, and other ...