A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was acquired in 2022.

But while the public may be in support of the Los Angeles Fire Department and other agencies, those firefighters say they remain underpaid and their stations understaffed. LAFD employees and ...

A 2023 lawsuit calling for fair pay and proper staffing in the Los Angeles Fire Department has been reignited following the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires that left 29 people dead. Latest U.S.

That plan released by LAFD shows Brentwood's Fire 19 did have two firefighters dedicated to brush fires that day, but that station can be a roughly nine mile drive away from where the Palisades ...

Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,706.6 acres after being active for ...

Barneveld-Taylor is a 26-year veteran of the LAFD and has known and supported Crowley for two decades, although they were never assigned at the same fire station ... stop [an] 100-mph flaming ...

Unserviced Los Angeles Fire Department vehicles are seen at a maintenance yard in Lincoln Heights on Feb. 6, 2024. (KTLA) She went on to say that firetrucks were also idle because of staffing.

Divers with the Los Angeles Fire Department were responding to a 35-foot commercial boat that started sinking in the Los Angeles Harbor Friday, authorities said. LAFD issued an alert at 12:27 p.m ...

“We as firemen want to solve the problem and put the fire out,” said Child, chief pilot with the Los Angeles Fire Department’s ... while hovering 50 to 100 feet over steep terrain to drop ...

By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital The Los Angeles Fire Department said Monday afternoon ... along the coasts and in the valleys, and 60-100 miles per hour in the foothills and the ...

according to a Los Angeles Fire Department news release. The vehicle, a Rosenbauer RTX, is powered by two batteries with a charge capacity of 100 kilowatt hours that allows for “fully electric ...