As Jerry Kao was driving along PCH last week, a sudden mudslide smashed into his car, pushing it off a cliff and into the ...

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 ...

As Southern California begins to emerge from a series of deadly wildfires, firefighters are receiving public praise and recognition for their life-saving efforts. Chris Wolfe reports Jan. 28 ...

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 ...

"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.

For years, there has been news coverage stating that LAFD needs more firefighters. In December, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley sent a memo to the city stating budget cuts “severely limited the ...