Former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford told The Times that he would have taken the same approach to last week’s wind threat as Butler did in 2011. Crawford worked for the department for 33 ...

“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 ...

A third official then produced a document that said seven of the vehicles were put into service ... have been used before,' said former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford.

Firefighters who reported to assist during the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires were kept from helping on the front ...

As Flash Flood Warnings were issed for the Palisades Fire scar, an NBC News crew documented an LAFD member and his truck ...

“This is why electric vehicles don’t belong anywhere near public safety services.” A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department has said the claim is false. The department has a single ...

"With that we even pulled on additional resources internally within the Los Angeles Fire Department to add five engines and one battalion chief. That is above and beyond what we would do on a red ...

A retired battalion chief believes an incident report obtained by Eyewitness News shows the department did not pre-deploy enough resources before the dangerous winds. LAFD told Eyewitness News its ...