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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Los Angeles has been beset by fires this year, and it seems like every fire department around has done everything it can to ...

"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...

Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation warning for residents in the area at 11:46 p.m. (2:46 a.m. ET Thursday) but later ended the alert at 2 a.m. In addition to the approximately 31,000 ...

The number of deaths from the wildfires that destroyed entire communities in the Los Angeles area ... winds on Jan. 7, fire officials said. Damage assessment teams are nearly finished with their ...

Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley said Tuesday that “life-threatening and destructive and widespread winds” are in the region, which could fuel the growth of new or existing ...

City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo told the Los Angeles Times that overall fire department overtime increased in this year’s budget by nearly $18m. He said budget reductions did not limit the ...

The essential firefighting vehicles were still sitting in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau Of Supply and Maintenance lot in an industrial area Wednesday, waiting to be repaired.

Crews continued making progress battling the deadly infernos burning in Los Angeles County during a brief reprieve from dangerous fire weather over the weekend, but Southern California now is ...

Roughly 31,000 people were ordered to flee an area north of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 22, after a fast-moving wildfire exploded, growing to more than 8,000 acres within hours, officials said.

SCE concedes in the filing that a conductor failure occurred near the origin of the fire, causing damaged equipment to fall ...