NBC News5d
Investigators comb a scorched slope to solve a mystery: How did the Palisades Fire start?
The city fire department didn’t report what caused it. The fire was largely forgotten until six days later. Around 8:20 a.m. Jan. 7, Darrin Hurwitz set out on his regular hike up a mountainside ...
New York Post16d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
The essential firefighting vehicles were still sitting in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau Of Supply and Maintenance lot in an industrial area Wednesday, waiting to be repaired.
GMA Network17d
Sampaloc fire affects 500 families
A fire broke out in a residential area in Barangay 458, Sampaloc, Manila early Thursday morning, which affected around 500 families and left one person injured. According to a report of EJ Gomez on ...
CBC.ca17d
Former deputy chief of Klondike Valley fire dept. sentenced to 18 months for sexual assault
A former deputy chief of the Klondike Valley Fire Department who sexually assaulted his former intimate partner has been sentenced to 18 months in jail. Leslie Iain Weatherston, who lives in ...
CBS News17d
L.A. Fire Department brass face questions about slow response to Palisades Fire
Los Angeles — Questions are mounting regarding why hundreds of Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were initially held back from racing to the scene of the Palisades Fire when it first broke ...
NBC Los Angeles17d
Did city, LAFD prepare enough for Palisades Fire? Here's what we know
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough to prepare in the days ahead of the deadly Palisades Fire. The fire department did not hold ...
New York Post17d
LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
She previously claimed Mayor Karen Bass’ funding cuts to the department had left the LDFD without the resources it needed to fight the fires. Crews fighting the Palisades Fire also reported ...
TheWrap18d
Denis Leary Says Fire Departments Always Get Budget Cuts First Because They Don’t Strike
According to the actor, fire departments are always the first targeted in budget cuts, because they will always go out and help people, no matter what. Leary explained this during his appearance o ...
Chicago Tribune18d
CFD deputy chief driven to firehouse after being found asleep at the wheel: OIG
The Chicago Police Department and Chicago Fire Department logos on the outside of Chicago Public Safety Headquarters in 2023. (Talia Sprague/Chicago Tribune) Several members of the Chicago Fire ...
The Citizen18d
Watch: No SA firefighters sent to Los Angeles, confirms Working on Fire
Photo: Facebook Working on Fire has dismissed claims circulating on social media that South African firefighters were recently sent to assist with the fires in Los Angeles. According to Lowvelder ...
CNN18d
‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
A CNN analysis of the most recent data available from the 10 largest US cities and other comparable departments shows the Los Angeles Fire Department is less staffed than almost any other major ...