“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 ...
As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and ...
At the HME Ahrens-Fox plant along Chicago Drive in Wyoming Wednesday, workers were finishing engines that will go to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (more commonly known ...
Officials told KOAT Thursday morning there are five different fire engines they are sending out to California with 26 personnel across five different departments here in the state of New Mexico.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The North Little Rock Fire Department is making dreams come true for Freda Nichols' 100th birthday. When asked what she wanted to do to celebrate her milestone ...
The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control sent nine strike teams made up of 45 fire engines to aid crews in California on Sunday. Each engine has three to five members aboard.
No extra engines had been placed in the Palisades, where the fire broke out about 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, officials said. The department prepositioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and ...
A Jan. 11 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims California prevented some out-of-state fire engines from coming into the state to help fight its deadly wildfires. “Oregon sent 60 fire ...
L.A. firefighters look for hot spots as they prepare for high winds in the burn areas of the Palisades fire on Tuesday, Jan. 14. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) ...
Despite being available, no extra engines were readied in the Palisades region prior to the fire breaking out there, according to the logs. LA’s Deputy Chief Richard Fields, who is in charge of ...