The plan included this new engine, more staffing for the department and the new fire station. The department has not hired a new firefighter since 2013, but fire call volume in Hewitt has more ...

Los Angeles fire bosses deployed a just fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five the 40 available fire engines ...

The fire engine industry was once made up of small, local manufacturers, many of whom built dozens or hundreds of trucks per year. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, some of those companies were ...

A pair of votes divided along political lines yielded a significant modification to the city’s fiscal plan for 2025-26. The conservative majority approved a half-staffing measure for Engine 1 ...

Thursday evening, the city's fire chief, Paul Alvarado, presented the department's latest Fire Services Master Plan, which calls for expanding the city's Racquet Club neighborhood and Downtown ...

Fire Chief Geo Blackshire had initially proposed managing the engine at Station 4 through a cross-staffing model in which three firefighters switch between operating the engine and the ambulance ...