With the tempest expected to hit on Dec. 1 that year, LAFD commanders ordered up at least 40 extra fire engines for stations closest to the areas where the fire hazards were greatest, including ...

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department has said the claim is false. The department has a single electric fire engine, acquired in 2022, and it has no electric fire trucks. Claim that ...

City Councilman John Lee says 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 in ...

“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 ...

Officials said they moved more engines “first thing in the morning” to also cover northeast L.A. The Times’ findings come as LAFD officials continue to assert that the firefighting effort ...

Los Angeles — Questions are mounting regarding why hundreds of Los Angeles Fire Department personnel ... only 19 fire engines were pre-deployed to the area. But it's unclear how many, if any ...

Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing for the kind of dangerous winds that could drive flames across hillsides and canyons and tear through neighborhoods from ...

With the tempest expected to hit on Dec. 1 that year, LAFD commanders ordered up at least 40 extra fire engines for stations closest to the areas where the fire hazards were greatest, including the ...