Los Angeles Fire Chief Faces Calls for Resignation
As a disastrous fire continues to burn on the city’s west side, some are calling Chief Kristin Crowley to account: Why wasn’t ...
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It’s OK that we don’t have more female firefighters
Over the last devastating week of wildfires, there are many things that we’ve learned that the Los Angeles Fire Department needs — and more women firefighters isn’t one of them. This isn’t to slight ...
Should the L.A. City Council still be informing the public by bulletin board?
On Tuesday, the council drafted and posted a flurry of proposals for same-day voting — so many that they were buried under ...
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Former Playa Vista CEO Steve Soboroff Appointed To Lead LA Fire Recovery Efforts
Soboroff is a civic and business figure and a former president of the Los Angeles Police Commission who spent years living in ...
Mayor Bass names civic leader Steve Soboroff as lead of city's fire recovery effort
Mayor Karen Bass said no one is better equipped to create a rebuilding plan. "He knows our communities. He knows how to activate City Hall. He's been in City Hall." ...
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New round of evacuation orders lifted as LA mayor names chief recovery officer
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At least 27 people are believed to be dead and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong Santa Ana ...
Democrat on LA City Council bashes city for prioritizing free crack pipes over funding fire dept
We have the same number of firefighters and fire stations in LA in 2025 that we did in 1960. How insane is that?” said Councilwoman Traci Park.
Former Cal OES director Mark Ghilarducci weighs in on LA wildfires, preparation and political discourse
California's former top emergency management official, Mark Ghilarducci, has spent the last 40 years responding to major disasters across the globe and now from a far, has been monitoring the ...