Fire fighting trucks, engines and apparatus awaiting repair at the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau Of Supply and Maintenance. The department underwent $17 million in cuts to its budget in ...

Claim that LAFD has 45 electric fire trucks is wrong, spokesperson says. Margaret Stewart, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson, told Lead Stories that the claim is false. “There are not ...

Los Angeles Fire Department, Feb. 10, 2020, LAFD Purchasing First Electric Fire Engine in North America California Fire Prevention Organization, accessed Jan. 22, Fire Apparatus ...

The service records show a broader problem: the city’s longtime reliance on an aging fleet of engines that cycle in and out of the shop.

Los Angeles fire bosses deployed a just fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five the 40 available fire engines ...

The LAFD fleet maintenance yard has 22 engines and 11 trucks offline and out of service, according to staff there. That is because we don’t have enough mechanics to fix them due to civilian ...

According to an LAFD report presented to the city Fire Commission last month, 127 out of 210 fire engines — 60% — and 29 out of 60 ladder trucks — 48% — are operating beyond their ...

"45 of Los Angeles fire trucks have to go back to the fire department for 10 hours a day to recharge instead of fighting fires after refueling in 7 minutes this is why electric vehicles don't ...

As a proud 35-year veteran and current captain with the Los Angeles Fire Department, I’ve never experienced the devastation that we're seeing in LA today, where thousands of structures and more ...

This image shows two electric fire trucks built by Pierce, a company that belongs to Oshkosh. Oshkosh Corporation. ... more than 100 of the LAFD’s 183 fire trucks were out of service.

At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific ...