Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
Los Angeles has been beset by fires this year, and it seems like every fire department around has done everything it can to ...
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75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
“We have over 100 fire apparatus out of service ... president of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles union — warned the department was seriously underfunded. “We don’t have enough ...
The role of budget cuts and private equity firms in the Los Angeles wildfires
The crisis facing the LA Fire Department is a microcosm of the broader contradictions of capitalism. It highlights the urgent ...
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Fire department funding and recruitment policy come under scrutiny as deadly Los Angeles blazes rage on
Over 100 fire apparatus are out of service ... But even with a fully funded fire department, Hudley-Hayes said she believes Los Angeles firefighters would have still struggled to contain the ...
No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was acquired in 2022.
L.A.’s fire chief generated controversy — and fierce loyalty — while the city burned
Critics of Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley — a gay woman leading an overwhelmingly male department — call her a “DEI ...
Los Angeles Had Substandard Hydrants Near Devastating Fire’s Starting Point
The Palisades fire first took hold in a neighborhood where many hydrants had only a single small outlet for firefighters to ...
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Did city, LAFD prepare enough for Palisades Fire? Here's what we know
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough to prepare in the days ahead of the deadly Palisades Fire. The fire department did not hold ...
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Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
The Los Angeles Fire Department has trucks ... the latter being an important supplier of wildland firefighting apparatus to the California, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana markets. ...
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75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
The Los Angeles Fire Department had its budget cut by $17 ... Toby Canham for NY Post “We have over 100 fire apparatus out of service,” Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley admitted to ...