LAFD hired celebrity PR firm that reps Rihanna and Reese Witherspoon for post-fire damage control

The Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation paid a celebrity public relations firm to help top LAFD officials manage their ...

LAFD calls for a sales tax increase to fund department needs, they say to keep LA safe

Backers say a City of Los Angeles sales tax increase would allow LAFD to hire more firefighters, build and repair fire ...

Meet the Los Angeles Fire Department crew tasked with protecting communities from the next wildfire disaster

The smell of wet grass from the recent atmospheric river rains, mud and gasoline wafts through the warm Southern California ...
NBC Los Angeles

‘We need your help.' LA firefighters urge Angelenos to support half-cent sales tax for LAFD

The union for LA firefighters are collecting signatures so the measure for the sales tax increase would qualify for the ...

L.A. firefighter union launches sales tax initiative to fund new stations and more

The city's firefighter union announced its push Thursday to raise hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the department ...
NBC Los Angeles on MSN

Firefighters union pushing for sales tax increase to fund LA Fire Department

The union for Los Angeles firefighters is expected to launch a campaign Thursday to propose a half-cent sales tax increase to ...

LAFD Chief Moore addresses lessons learned from Palisades Fire, challenging leadership decisions

Moore was clear not to place blame on firefighters on the line, but rather challenged "leadership decisions, legacy systems and long-standing structural constraints that must evolve to meet today's ...

LAFD chief admits Palisades fire report was watered down, says it won't happen again

The admission comes more than two weeks after The Times found that the city's report had been changed numerous times to soften language and burnish the image of the Fire Department in the aftermath of ...

New LAFD chief won't look into who watered down Palisades fire report

Jaime Moore said he is taking a forward-looking approach and is not seeking to assign blame for changes to the Oct. 8 report ...
Los Angeles Magazine

LAFD Union Warns of Severe Understaffing, Pushes Sales Tax Hike for Fire Funding

Los Angeles firefighters are gathering signatures for a ballot measure to fund more staff, new engines, and stations amid ...

Man and dog killed in East Hollywood house fire, LAFD says

A man and his dog were killed in a house fire in East Hollywood on Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. If ...