New York Post20d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
Provided by The United Firefighters of Los Angeles City “We don’t have enough firefighters and medics, we don’t have enough fire engines, we don’t have enough trucks and ambulances in the ...
Southern Daily Echo20d
Southampton: Two fire engines rush to city centre flat
Southampton residents were left concerned as two fire engines rushed to a city centre flat block today. Crews from St Mary's and Redbridge turned on their blue lights after being called out Briton ...
Chicago Tribune20d
After lengthy backlog, Lincolnwood Fire Department has new, nearly $1M fire engine
The Lincolnwood Fire Department has a shiny new fire engine, adding to the current fleet and coming at a price tag of nearly $1 million. More than two years after the Village Board approved the ...
ABC30 Action News21d
Evacuation orders remain in place for Palisades Fire after flames die out
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KFSN) -- High winds in Southern California continue to threaten the recent progress made by fire crews on the wildfires. As of Wednesday afternoon, there are no active ...
CBS News21d
L.A. Fire Department brass face questions about slow response to Palisades Fire
only 19 fire engines were pre-deployed to the area. But it's unclear how many, if any, were sent to the first neighborhood that caught fire. For the first four hours that a CBS News crew was on ...
WOOD-TV21d
Fire engines built in West Michigan bound for California wildfires
At the HME Ahrens-Fox plant along Chicago Drive in Wyoming Wednesday, workers were finishing engines that will go to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (more commonly known ...
New York Post21d
LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
“You would have had a better chance to get a better result if you deployed those engines,” former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford told the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles fire bosses ...
Planet F121d
What happened to Ron Dennis? Life after McLaren for the mastermind
When it comes to team principals, Ron Dennis was one of the most influential in Formula 1 history. At the end of the 1980 season, the hard-charging young entrepreneur had worked his way up the ...
Seattle Times21d
LA fire officials could have put engines in Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
No extra engines had been placed in the Palisades, where the fire broke out about 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7, officials said. The department prepositioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and ...
AOL21d
LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
Despite being available, no extra engines were readied in the Palisades region prior to the fire breaking out there, according to the logs. LA’s Deputy Chief Richard Fields, who is in charge of ...
Daily Mail22d
LA fire department failed to deploy 1,000 fighters and dozens of engines in advance of devastating blaze
Instead, officials pre-positioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood that were already on duty, expecting a fire might break out there. Internal planning documents even showed ...
Los Angeles Times22d
L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and ...