Electric fire trucks did not factor in response to deadly LA blazes
Amid the deadly wildfires in Southern California, posts claimed the Los Angeles Fire Department was hindered by electric ...
LA County Fire Chief: Super Scoopers, choppers work – but were grounded during fierce wildfire winds
During a new process aimed at increasing the county’s fiscal transparency, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone on ...
It's Not True Half of LA Fire Trucks Are Electric or Take 10 Hours To Recharge
A rumor that half of LA's fire trucks are electric and they have to go back to the firehouse to recharge every eight to ten hours is circulating online. For example, the America's Last Line of Defense ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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Northbound lanes of 5 Freeway shut down in Lincoln Heights due to tanker fire
All northbound lanes of the 5 Freeway were temporarily shut down Tuesday morning in the Lincoln Heights area due to a tanker ...
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2 people used firetruck purchased at auction to impersonate firefighters in Pacific Palisades
Sheriff’s deputies stopped two individuals from trying to access a checkpoint in a vehicle that looked like a fire engine, Commander Minh G. Dinh of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department ...
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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 ...