Nearly four months after the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began investigating the Palisades fire, ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a budget proposal that would fold the LAFD’s Equity Bureau into the Professional ...

Amid staffing shortages, instead of hiring more personnel, the city has leaned on overtime to fill the gaps. Firefighters are ...

The Hurst Fire was one of several blazes that broke out Jan. 7 during extreme Santa Ana winds and caused widespread power ...

Water supplies ran dry in the Pacific Palisades fire, in part because a reservoir was shut down for repairs. Records show the city had tried and failed to prepare an alternative reservoir.

The head of the union representing Los Angeles Fire Department employees took home more than half a million dollars last year, a Los Angeles Times investigation found. In 2022, the most recent ...

Freddy Escobar, president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112, asserted that the department did not have enough fire trucks and engines for those 1,000 firefighters. But several ...

An abandoned Hollywood home that neighbors said had been attracting a constant stream of transients and criminal activity was demolished after the property went up in flames. The fire erupted ...

Mayor Karen Bass unveiled a spending plan for the city of Los Angeles that includes more than 1,600 layoffs, budget cuts and increases, the consolidation of municipal departments and other efforts to ...