The approved budget uses emergency funds to pay for ongoing regular services, which is typically only done in a recession.

Three hospitalized after rollover collision in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles with fire department extrication efforts.

LAFD response times have reached a 10-year low, with waits over six and a half minutes for emergencies. Despite budget growth ...

A Westlake apartment building was evacuated Wednesday afternoon after a possible gas-related explosion left a man ...

Freddy Escobar made nearly $540,000 in 2022. He doubled his base salary with overtime payouts, earning a total of more than ...

The president of the L.A. Fire Departments labor union, Freddy Escobar, long a critic of what he called an insufficient fire ...

Months after the January 2025 LA wildfires, top LA City Fire officials have been suspended after a financial investigation.

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) and its budget have become a major topic of concern among Angelenos ...

Unhoused Angelenos were involved in nearly one-third of L.A. area fires in recent years, according to a memo from the Los ...

A total of five people were taken to the hospital -- including a 12-year-old boy and a 30-year-old woman who was in critical ...

The union is allowed to place its board members on full-time leave from their LAFD jobs while they still collect their regular salaries. The board members are allowed to pick up extra shifts ...

On Wednesday, May 21, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced they battled a structure fire in Pacific Palisades.