As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and ...

“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 ...

The first 911 call came at 10:29 a.m., from a resident of Piedra Morada Drive in Pacific Palisades. Amid high winds, a fire was visible in the distance, the flames flickering over a chaparral ...

A Jan. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims California prevented some out-of-state fire engines from coming into the state to help fight its deadly wildfires. “Oregon sent 60 fire ...

The city maintenance yard was filled with aging fire engines and ladder trucks, many of which were beyond their expected service life. Chuong Ho, a firefighter and union leader who was among those ...

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has approved the purchase of 10 new fire engines to replace aging equipment. The decision comes after recent wildfires strained the county's ...

Within 10 months, 10 Type-1 fire engines — costing about $6 million in all — are scheduled to roll into the county’s fire stations. The Board of Supervisors’ decision last month to spend ...

No extra engines had been placed in the Palisades, where the fire broke out about 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, officials said. The department pre-positioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and ...

No extra engines had been placed in the Palisades, where the fire broke out about 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, officials said. The department prepositioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and ...