The Los Angeles Fire Department is expected to pre-deploy resources and personnel to address potential emergencies this Fourth of July weekend, Mayor Karen Bass announced Thursday. The LAFD will be ...

In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire department by $17.6 million from the previous year.

Since then-Fire Chief Daryl Osby started the foundation in 2015, the county has allowed it to raise money using the Fire Department logo with the understanding that the funds would be spent on ...

Fact check: Wildfire victims can get one-time $770 FEMA payment plus other aid. On May 14, 2022, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley announced the arrival of the department’s first electric ...

Sheila Kelliher, captain of the Los Angeles Fire Department, detailed the challenges of putting out the fires and explained how the department decides to deploy resources. Jan. 8, 2025.

LOS ANGELES — Every episode of "LA Fire & Rescue," a short-lived 2023 NBC docuseries, ended the same way. After watching L.A. County firefighters pull off heroic rescues, viewers were asked to ...

Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley critiqued the city's handling of fire department funding Friday, agreeing when pressed ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department asked off-duty members to call its communications department with their availability to assist in combating the fires in a Jan. 7 X post.

Los Angeles City Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley is seen here in Long Beach, Calif., Dec. 5, 2024. Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE.

Fire fighting trucks, engines and apparatus awaiting repair at the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau Of Supply and Maintenance. The department underwent $17 million in cuts to its budget in ...

For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, Los Angeles budgeted $837 million for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), which was roughly 65% the size of the homeless budget of $1.3 billion.