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Los Angeles cut $17.5M from fire department budget

Budget Cuts to Fire Department Are a Point of Contention, but the Full Picture Is Complicated

But as with much of the news swirling around the fires, the real picture is complicated. Facing lower tax revenues and higher operating costs, Ms. Bass did indeed approve a budget for the fire department’s current fiscal year that was $23 million less than the previous year.

KHOU 11 · 1d

Yes, Los Angeles cut $17.6 million from the fire department’s budget

The Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget was cut by nearly $17.6 million this fiscal year. That’s a roughly 2% decrease from the previous year.

ABC7 · 1d

Los Angeles cut $17.5M from fire department budget months before deadly fires

Seven months before the uncontrolled Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, the city's fire department budget for this fiscal year was cut by more than $17.5 million, records show.

Los Angeles, Sunset Fire

Reuters · 2h

Fact Check: Los Angeles firefighters did not use handbags to douse fire

Small canvas bags that Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) firefighters used as makeshift water containers to quickly put out a trash fire have been misdescribed on social media as women’s handbags, suggesting the LAFD is under-resourced because of budget cuts and donations of firefighting supplies to Ukraine.

CBS News · 4h

Los Angeles fire maps show updating view of where Palisades, Eaton and more fires are burning right now

Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, like the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fires, are burning across Los Angeles.

U.S. News & World Report · 5h

Wildfires Latest: 10 Confirmed Dead as Firefighters Work to Contain Blazes in Los Angeles Area

Firefighters are hoping for a break from the fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighborhoods and setting the nation’s second-l

Fire, West Hills

LAist on MSN · 24m

Archer Fire prompts evacuations in Granada Hills

The Los Angeles City Fire Department has ordered evacuations due to the Archer Fire, which started burning about 10:25 a.m. Friday in the northern San Fernando Valley community of Granada Hills. The following areas are under mandatory evacuation orders, which are likely to change quickly: North: Sunshine Canyon Road.

CBS News · 1h

Kenneth Fire sparks in West Hills area near homes, prompting mandatory evacuations

A 960-acre brush fire sparked in the West Hills area near the 101 Freeway Thursday afternoon. The Los Angeles Fire Department said that the fire was quickly burning toward the south, relatively close to homes before they were able to establish perimeter lines.

SFGATE on MSN · 19h

New fire erupts near Woodland Hills, prompting urgent evacuations

A new fire near West Hills on the border between Los Angeles and Ventura counties erupted Thursday afternoon as several other blazes are actively burning in the Los Angeles area, aerial footage shows.

5-alarm fire burning in Bronx, 7 people injured

CBS New York on MSN · 7h

5-alarm fire burning in the Bronx, 7 people injured

A five-alarm fire is burning in the Bronx, and several people have been hospitalized. Firefighters are on the scene along Wallace Avenue in the Allerton section, working to get the intense flames and smoke under control.

USA TODAY on MSN · 2h

7 injured including firefighters as crews battle 5-alarm Bronx apartment fire

The New York Fire Department is battling a 5-alarm blaze in the Bronx. Currently seven people including firefighters have suffered injuries.

ABC 7 New York on MSN · 2h

7 hurt, including 5 firefighters, in 5-alarm Bronx apartment fire

A wind-whipped 5-alarm fire burned through an apartment building in the Allerton section of the Bronx. The fire broke out in the upper floors of the building on Wallace Avenue just before 1:45 a.m. on Friday.

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LA fire sounded alarm on budget cuts impacting wildfire response: memo

The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) chief warned a month ago that budget cuts had plunged it into "unprecedented operational challenges" which would hamper its wildfire response.

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Lebanon police, fire crews rescue residents from roof of burning apartment building

Three people were rescued from the roof of a burning apartment building in Lebanon on Thursday thanks to some quick thinking ...

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Veteran battalion chief Dean Crispen named new San Francisco fire chief

Dean Crispen, a 34-year veteran San Francisco Fire Department battalion chief, has been promoted to fire chief, Mayor Daniel ...

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Minneapolis crews called to Pleasant Avenue for apartment fire, no one injured

An apartment fire in Minneapolis has been extinguished early Friday morning. At 2:54 a.m., the Minneapolis Fire Department ...

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Brush fire breaks out in Granada Hills amid destructive LA County wildfires

A brush fire in Granada Hills burned through two to three acres of brush Friday amid what fire officials have described as "erratic winds" — sparking as deadly, massive wildfires continue burning in ...