A "Rebuild Altadena" tote from Kikay. A “Palisades Strong” hat from Only the Lonely. A “Love L.A.” graphic T-shirt from the Hundreds. Rep and help the community with limited edition merch.

As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County, a cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department 2025 budget and its commitment to recruiting a more diverse force have come under attack.

In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire department by $17.6 million from the previous year. At the time, the city of Los Angeles was negotiating the union contract with the firefighters' union, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.

Residents who survived calamitous fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena hold their ground in burned-out neighborhoods, skirting evacuation orders to defend what is left.

according to The Los Angeles Times. “It was coming right at us,” Nic Libonati, the man who called it in, told the paper. State officials say the Palisades fire began on 10:30 a.m. local time ...

Particular ire has been directed at Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley, who became the department’s first female and LGBTQ fire chief in 2022. Internet culture is chaotic—but we ...

Several wildfires have ravaged Los Angeles this week, fueled by dangerously high winds and prolonged dry conditions. The unfavorable weather conditions, number of fires and scale of the fires have made it difficult for the local firefighters to contain the ...

president of the Los Angeles Firemen’s Relief Assn. At least three firefighters from the L.A. County Fire Department have also lost their houses, said a representative for the L.A. County ...

New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department ... fires to destroy entire communities, the L.A. Fire Department began moving its equipment to areas ...

A Los Angeles Fire Department captain ... Lievense secured hundreds of yards worth of hose line from a nearby L.A. County fire station and hooked it up to a fire hydrant on his street.

Los Angeles ... of Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were initially held back from racing to the scene of the Palisades Fire when it first broke out last week in L.A.'s Pacific Palisades ...

Mitchell shared photos with CBS News he took on his hike showing smoke still rising from the ground, hours after the L.A. Fire Department reported the fire contained by 4:46 a.m. The Los Angeles ...