Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted Fire Chief Kristin Crowley over her handling of the Palisades fire Friday, adding to the turmoil that has enveloped City Hall. Bass took that step after publicly ...

Text messages released to ABC News through a public records request provide new insight about what local officials were ...

The text messages show how officials first started to realize how bad things were getting and that the windswept blazes had ...

The Los Angeles City Council denied former Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristen Crowley’s appeal to be reinstated after ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department is pushing back against Mayor Karen Bass after she claimed in interviews that LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley did not warn her before her overseas trio to Ghana about ...

The LAFD deserves to be properly funded ... The messages include correspondence with the city emergency manager and LAPD ...

The exchange of messages reveals how authorities initially assessed and activated the lowest level of emergency management to address the Palisades Fire, before the windswept blazes overwhelmed the ...

Bass has appointed former Chief Deputy Ronnie Villanueva as interim fire chief. Villanueva served with the LAFD for 41 years before retiring in September 2024.

In the days after the devastating Palisades and Eaton wildfires, and as questions mounted about the Los Angeles Fire ...

The LAFD responds to more than 66,000 calls per year related to the city’s unhoused population, according to the department. “If we were a hospital, we would have the largest emergency room in ...