LAFD response times have reached a 10-year low, with waits over six and a half minutes for emergencies. Despite budget growth ...

Months after the most destructive wildfire in modern Los Angeles history, Mayor Karen Bass is seeking to add scores of new ...

The Bureau of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, created in November 2022, was supposed to spearhead recruitment of ...

Mayor Karen Bass foisted blame for the city’s mishandling of January’s deadly Los Angeles wildfires and their aftermath on ...

Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley has been fired by Mayor Karen Bass. Bass's office made the announcement Friday morning, saying she had been removed from the post effective ...

"On the phone with Chief [Kristin] Crowley," Cordero messaged in a group chat with Deputy Mayor of Communications Zach Seidl and Chief of Staff Carolyn Webb de Macías. The Palisades fire had just ...

On Feb. 21, Bass removed LAFD Kristin Crowley as fire chief, citing Crowley’s deployment decisions before the fire as a reason. The Times reported in January that Crowley and her staff chose not ...

In the days after the Palisades fire broke out, then-Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said that budget cuts had hampered the department's ability to fight the wind-driven blaze. Bass and her team ...