But while the public may be in support of the Los Angeles Fire Department and other agencies, those firefighters say they remain underpaid and their stations understaffed. LAFD employees and ...

LAFD hires its pilots from within after hundreds of hours of training. All of them start as ground firefighters ... While en route to the drop spot, he’s calculating. What are the winds doing?

Those public firefighters worked to save what they could while containing the spread across the city. “A good analogy would be a one-on-one defense versus zone defense,” LAFD Captain Brock ...

A Jan. 18 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims firefighters in Los Angeles rely on electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge. “(Forty-five) of Los Angeles fire trucks have to ...

"LAFD funding was the highest it's been in 15 years," the mayor's office said. Orchid and her clients hope that the city council will prioritize the firefighter's and department's needs.