New York Post25d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...
RealClearMarkets13d
How Private Equity Made The LA Fires Worse
During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private ...
Firehouse4d
Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Vehicles Were in the Maintenance Yard During the Wildfires
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...
Jalopnik12d
Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
The Los Angeles Fire Department has trucks, to be sure ... vehicle previously ordered by a dealer and passed down to the city as a favor, without any of the customizations that fire departments ...
CNN27d
‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
Another revealed that million-dollar fire trucks sat idle because budget cuts ... Up the coast from LA, the city of San Francisco boasts more than 1,800 firefighters for around 1.5 million ...
Al Jazeera English26d
What to know about the LA Fire Department’s budget
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 ...
USA Today1mon
LAFD is doing all we can to fight LA fires. But we're dangerously understaffed. | Opinion
As a proud 35-year veteran and current captain with the Los Angeles Fire ... our fire engines and trucks were dispatched to fight the Palisades Fire, the rest of our city still demanded our ...