As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County, a cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department 2025 budget and its commitment to recruiting a more diverse force have come ...

Fact check: Wildfire victims can get one-time $770 FEMA payment plus other aid. On May 14, 2022, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley announced the arrival of the department’s first electric ...

Specialized programs and resources, such as Air Operations, Tactical EMS Units, Disaster Response, and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), which rely heavily on v-hours, are now at risk of ...

Last year, the LAFD responded to nearly 500,000 incidents, 46,000 more incidents than the average between 2016 and 2019 prior to the pandemic - which is about 10% higher.

Los Angeles Fire Department faces criticism over 2025 budget cuts and diversity efforts as wildfires rage across the ... Tactical EMS Units, Disaster Response, and Community Emergency Response ...

RESEDA, CA (July 8, 2022) – A three-vehicle crash on Roscoe Boulevard and Tampa Avenue left an LAFD EMS Captain with serious injuries. Dispatchers received reports about the incident at around ...

Deputy Chief Kristine Larson -- who heads the Equity and Human Resources Bureau -- was addressing accusations that female firefighters aren't strong enough carry a man out of a burning building.

An apartment in a three-story building in Venice caught fire Friday morning, but firefighters put it out in 23 minutes. The fire was reported at 8:11 a.m. Friday at 534 E. Indiana Ave., according ...

LAFD responded to 392,949 EMS incidents, some of which had more than one patient, in 2020 alone. “It is not an exaggeration to say the LAFD sees almost half a million patients per year,” the ...

As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County, a cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department 2025 budget and its commitment to recruiting a more diverse force have come ...