But it’s not usually a fire that LAFD Station 11 is responding to. Through August of this year, there have been 599 drug ...

LAFD officials, such as Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, defended the decision to the L.A. Times, citing a lack of staff and budget cuts. “The plan that they put together, I stand behind, because we ...

The closest foxhole in this inferno was Fire Station 69 on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of the Palisades. Earlier in the evening, the LAFD made the highly unusual decision to recall off-duty ...

At 10:33 a.m., Chief Deputy Orin Saunders texted Crowley an LAFD alert showing that a brush fire had broken out in ... evacuated before installing a reg station" and that otherwise, "we will ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department did not inform the ... according to the list, which the station obtained from the LAFD through a public records request. Inside the DWP, the KCBS report was met ...

LAFD reported the findings of its inspections in mid-February, despite the fact that they were performed months earlier. The inspections were performed well before the Palisades Fire, which ...

During our discussions about an after-action report, I advised the fire commissioners about my opinion that was best in regard to how to use LAFD resources," Crowley said to the council.

Fire officials chose not to order the firefighters to remain on duty for a second shift l as the winds were building — which would have doubled the personnel on hand The LAFD could have sent at ...

The LAFD — which is contracted to annually inspect 66,000 fire hydrants across the city — had identified at least 1,350 hydrants in need of repair, according to its 2024 inspection.

The fire was first reported at 1:43 a.m. in a two-story building at 1338 S. Flower St. according to the Los Angeles Fire Department's Margaret Stewart. That is between Venice and Pico boulevards.