Lt. Mark Dranbauer, 44, was about halfway up the ladder when he was stricken, Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace said. A Baltimore firefighter is in critical and guarded condition after suffering ...

Freddy Escobar, the president of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, has been front and center since January's fires in L.A. While saying the LAFD is severely understaffed, he's been ...

But LAFD officials say the position is much more than that. Emergency incident technicians are firefighters who play a key role in coordinating the response to fires, and losing them would put ...

The breakdown happened hours before a major fire in west Auckland. The firefighters’ union says another of its ladder trucks in Auckland broke down last night. The truck has the only high-reach ...

The head of the union representing Los Angeles Fire Department employees took home more than half a million dollars last year, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. In 2022, the most recent ...

The firefighters’ union says another of its ladder trucks in Auckland broke down last night. The truck has the only high-reach aerial ladder remaining in the region, after the other became stuck ...

The president and two other top officers of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s labor union were suspended from their posts Monday after an investigation by the union’s parent organization found ...

Months after the January 2025 LA wildfires, top LA City Fire officials have been suspended after a financial investigation. Pakistan says it is responding to 'act of war' after India missile strik ...

Lt. Mark Dranbauer Jr. was critically injured Monday afternoon after suffering a medical emergency while perched on an aerial ladder, according to Baltimore City Fire Department Chief James Wallace.

They might’ve gotten a bit of inspiration from the Rams. Before the Rams picked their new players last week, they picked the LAFD’s air operations headquarters in Van Nuys, Calif., as the team ...