LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Friday ousted Los Angeles Fire Department Fire Chief Kristin Crowley amid tensions between the two about the way this year's deadly fires were handled.

Mayor Karen Bass said she was "acting in the best interests of Los Angeles’ public safety" in removing Kristin Crowley as fire chief.

“Acting in the best interests of Los Angeles’ public safety, and for the operations of the Los Angeles Fire Department, I ...

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 ...

As a charred Los Angeles resurfaces from the infernal flames that engulfed the region last month, questions loom as to how ...

"Overwhelming is probably one of the first words that come to mind," said Kelliher, a 25-year veteran of the LA County Fire Department. "We don't do it for applause. So, for that to happen ...

Health officials have shut down approximately 9 miles of Los Angeles County coastline this ... according to the health department. After the 2018 Woolsey Fire, scientists found elevated levels ...

In a small, intimate press conference on Friday, County of Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Malcolm Dicks was reunited with Patty Phillips, the Malibu resident he saved from the Palisades Fire.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department has a firefighter staffing ratio of about 1.16 per 1,000 people. In the Bay Area, county fire department staffing levels per 1,000 people are 1.06 at Santa ...

Ethan Swope/AP The Hughes Fire is one of four active fires still burning across Southern California, according to the California Department ... to devastate Los Angeles County this month.

"It does have a high potential for spread because we are looking at 32-mph winds as we speak," LA County Fire Department Captain Sheila Kelliher Berkoh said that day. "Those winds are supposed to ...