Los Angeles Had Substandard Hydrants Near Devastating Fire’s Starting Point
The Palisades fire first took hold in a neighborhood where many hydrants had only a single small outlet for firefighters to ...
Arson suspect chased down by residents after allegedly sparking fire near Chatsworth Reservoir
A man lit a fire near the Chatsworth Reservoir, authorities say, but firefighters were able to contain the blaze and ...
California city's massive $130M deficit threatens dangerous cuts to its firefighting capacity
The city of Oakland will lose 30% of its firefighting capacity in the next two weeks due to the city’s $129.8 million budget ...
Los Angeles Magazine3d
'Grab a Hose, Take a Stand'
Inside the harrowing fight for survival at Fire Station 69 on Sunset Boulevard in the hurricane of fire that devoured miles ...
Funding to fight fires — not crime — is new priority for many California cities
For years, California’s police commissioners have used the image of stolen cars and shattered windows to demand more crime-fighting resources. Now, fire chiefs are hoping to use the sight of ...
Oakland firefighters fear station closures could mean an L.A.-sized blaze in their future
Oakland Fire Lt. Matt Amormino rode shotgun in his fire engine, past the burned-out vehicles and eucalyptus-studded East Bay hills that make Fire Station 21’s expansive coverage area a year-round ...
Column: Vandalize an Italian American museum during an immigration protest? Bad move
Protesters defacing a shrine to immigrants of the past while fighting for the immigrants of today — it was a sad irony for ...
The L.A. Fire Where Something Went Right
While some Angelenos cast around for someone to blame, a whole cooperative emergency-response system whirred to life.
Firehouse1d
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 ...
Santa Barbara Independent5d
Is Santa Barbara County Prepared for the Next Big Fire?
The wind-driven fires quickly grew beyond the capacity of the Los Angeles crews on hand — here, the county has 16 fire ...
ABC 7 Los Angeles on MSN1d
Pasadena family meets firefighters who saved their home during Eaton Fire
"It was a lot of emotion packed into it," said Eric Mills. "Very welcoming and actually kind of helped fill in some of the gaps of the storyline of how it happened." ...
Firehouse4d
As Firehouse Sees It: January’s Wrath
Amid the aftermath of devastation, Peter Matthews urges conversations about construction in rural/rugged environments, defensible space, noncombustible building materials and ...