While some Angelenos cast around for someone to blame, a whole cooperative emergency-response system whirred to life.

If you know anything about fire, white smoke is good, dark smoke is not. A few minutes later, all our phones started ringing; it was the fire department ... middle-class Los Angeles neighborhood ...

At a commission meeting just last month, Escobar told LA city officials short staffing in the fire department was “dire” warning “someone will die.” LAFD has approximately 3,500 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said Wednesday there would be lessons to be learned about the response to the fires, but stressed that her department ... on the hillside above the ...

The wildfires raging across Los Angeles ... from the city's Department of Water and Power about issues that arose throughout the fires, such as water pressure problems and dry fire hydrants.

including from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, which covers areas outside the city, including hard-hit Altadena. But images of residents in some neighborhoods trying to save homes with ...

Escobar told LA city officials that short staffing in the Los Angeles Fire Department was “dire” adding that “someone will die,” according to a CNN report. “You’re not supposed to make ...

The city has been criticized for reducing the Los Angeles Fire Department‘s operating budget by about $17 million — according to figures shown in the CAO’s adopted budget document.

LA’s firefighters were joined by crews from across the state, including from the Los Angeles County Fire Department ... 16 firefighters who need to clean their uniforms almost every day. “City ...