No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was ...
In cleanup from California fires, lithium-ion batteries are a dangerous challenge
One of the biggest cleanup challenges from the Southern California fires is lithium-ion batteries, which can explode after ...
It's Not True Half of LA Fire Trucks Are Electric or Take 10 Hours To Recharge
A rumor that half of LA's fire trucks are electric and they have to go back to the firehouse to recharge every eight to ten ...
L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in scores of extra firefighters and equipment in the hours before ...
Does the L.A. Fire Department Have a Fleet of Electric Fire Trucks?
Social media users across X, Facebook, Threads, and Instagram have claimed that efforts to contain the fires have been ...
Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time
Thirteen years ago, the LAFD took the type of dramatic measures in preparation of dangerous winds that the department failed ...
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75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
We have over 100 fire apparatus out of service,” Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley admitted when the wildfires were ...
What Los Angeles Could Learn From Great Fires of the Past
In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...
LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
Los Angeles fire bosses opted not to deploy 1,000 available firefighters and more than 40 water-carrying engines until after ...
Winds in Southern California are expected to calm, but the fire threat continues this week
As winds across the Southern California area are calmer than their peak and firefighters are making progress, the threat to ...
‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
A CNN analysis of the 10 largest US cities and other comparable departments shows the Los Angeles Fire Department is less ...
California environmental policies misleadingly blamed for LA fires
As r aging fires battered Los Angeles County in early 2025, critics put a spotlight on the US state of California's ...