Firefighters kept from Palisades, Eaton front lines due to unserviced LAFD vehicles
Firefighters who reported to assist during the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires were kept from helping on the front ...
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LAFD Chief Defends Pre-Deployment Decisions Prior to Palisades Fire
Los Angeles Fire Department ... engines were moved the morning of Jan. 7 to the northeast Los Angeles area. Crowley insisted Wednesday that the department “pre-deployed the resources on top ...
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L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
As the Los Angeles Fire Department ... winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water-carrying engines in advance ...
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No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department has said the claim is false. The department has a single electric fire engine, acquired in 2022, and it has no electric fire trucks. Claim that ...
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Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time
Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing for the kind of dangerous winds that could drive flames across hillsides and canyons and tear through neighborhoods from ...
New York Post23d
LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
“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 ...
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Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn't happen this time
That decision made it more difficult to quickly staff the unused engines after the fire began to rage out of control, former LAFD chiefs told The Times. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley and other top ...
Seattle Times23d
LA fire officials could have put engines in Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
LOS ANGELES — As the Los Angeles Fire Department ... top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water-carrying engines ...