Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing for the kind of dangerous winds that could drive flames across hillsides and canyons and tear through neighborhoods from ...

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department has said the claim is false. The department has a single electric fire engine, acquired in 2022, and it has no electric fire trucks. Claim that ...

Schell-Vista Fire Protection District’s new fire engine replacing older truck and increasing emergency response capabilities.

According to fire department Deputy Chief Bryan Pierce, the 2024 Pierce Enforcer fire engine cost the village $948,000 but the funds came from the federal American Rescue Plan Act. The price tag ...

But several former chiefs with deep experience in LAFD tactics said most of the more than 40 available engines could have been pre-deployed to fire zones before the Palisades blaze started ...

The Times also reported that before the fires, LAFD leaders decided not to deploy additional engines to fire-prone areas like the Pacific Palisades. However, nine engines were positioned in ...

Los Angeles — Questions are mounting regarding why hundreds of Los Angeles Fire Department ... as the Palisades Fire started at about 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, only 19 fire engines were pre-deployed ...

With the tempest expected to hit on Dec. 1 that year, LAFD commanders ordered up at least 40 extra fire engines for stations closest to the areas where the fire hazards were greatest, including ...

“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 ...