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No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department has said the claim is false. The department has a single electric fire engine, acquired in 2022, and it has no electric fire trucks. Claim that ...
Electric fire trucks did not factor in response to deadly LA blazes
Amid the deadly wildfires in Southern California, posts claimed the Los Angeles Fire Department was hindered by electric ...
As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price
Fire engine manufacturing is now largely controlled by three companies. Around the country, prices have soared, and orders ...
Fire-ravaged Los Angeles confronts difficult questions as it rushes to rebuild
As a charred Los Angeles resurfaces from the infernal flames that engulfed the region last month, questions loom as to how ...
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LA’s “fire dozer” is every bit as cool as it sounds
This thing is an absolute unit. Over 11 feet tall. Runs on tracks instead of wheels. Up front? A 16-foot-wide blade that ...
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Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Vehicles Were in the Maintenance Yard During the Wildfires
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...
Update: Palisades Fire remains 100% contained, 23,706.6 acres destroyed in Los Angeles County
Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,706.6 acres after being active for ...
Firefighter swept into ocean in debris flow as heavy rain pounds Los Angeles
A new atmospheric river is slamming California, including fire-ravaged Los Angeles, where residents are bracing for the ...
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Pasadena family meets firefighters who saved their home during Eaton Fire
"It was a lot of emotion packed into it," said Eric Mills. "Very welcoming and actually kind of helped fill in some of the gaps of the storyline of how it happened." ...