City records show that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass proposed in April 2024 to cut the fire department’s budget by $23 million as the city experienced lower tax revenues and higher costs.

Greene County has shuttered the Ruckersville Volunteer Fire Company, saying only that an outside agency has been brought on to look into claims against it.

Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires, are burning across Los Angeles.