Los Angeles slashed its fire department's budget last year while prioritizing spending for its homeless population, a move ...

After a weekend of reprieve allowing fire teams to continue making progress battling the deadly infernos burning in Los ...

In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire ...

Mayor Karen Bass has come under criticism for a decrease in funding for the LA Fire Department amid the devastating wildfires.

Capt. Kevin Easton and his firefighting team had already spent hours battling an out-of-control fire sweeping through Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades area, leaving gutted homes in its wake.

Amidst confusion around budget cuts affecting the Los Angeles Fire Department ... year's budget (Fiscal Year 2023 - 2024), this current year's fire department budget in total is larger by $58.4 ...

In a Dec. 4 memo, Los Angeles Chief ... inspections. The fire department experienced a decrease by $17.6 million, or 2%, between the 2024-25 fiscal year and the 2023-24 fiscal year, according ...

Before wildfires broke out across Los Angeles ... Funding for the city's fire department decreased by $17.6 million, or 2%, between the 2024-25 fiscal year and the 2023-24 fiscal year, according ...

Firefighters are hoping for a break Friday from the fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area ... temperature easily passed 2023’s record heat and kept pushing ...

From the 2023-2024 to the 2024-2025 budgets ... but it was not adopted. Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone announced that the wildfires in Eaton and the Palisades are 0% contained.

As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel ...