Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
Los Angeles has been beset by fires this year, and it seems like every fire department around has done everything it can to ...
Does the L.A. Fire Department Have a Fleet of Electric Fire Trucks?
Social media users across X, Facebook, Threads, and Instagram have claimed that efforts to contain the fires have been ...
No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was ...
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Man leaves Palisades Fire zone one week after staying to save home
For the first time in a week, Ken Karmin emerged from the Palisades Fire zone after he stayed behind to save his home. Lydia Sawyer fought back tears as she saw her destroyed home for the first ...
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L.A. Fire Department brass face questions about slow response to Palisades Fire
But it's unclear how many, if any, were sent to the first neighborhood that caught fire. For the first four hours that a CBS News crew was on scene while flames torched homes, crew members did not see ...
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Questions raised about whether Los Angeles did enough to prepare for the deadly Palisades Fire
City Councilman John Lee says the north and west San Fernando Valley had extra engines in place: “I spoke to different people within LAFD ... trucks pre-deployed and pre-positioned before the ...
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Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
Another revealed that million-dollar fire trucks sat idle because budget ... and other comparable departments shows the Los Angeles Fire Department is less staffed than almost any other major ...