LAFD leaders engaged in campaign of secrecy and deflection designed to avoid taking full responsibility for what went wrong ...

Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook's email adds to the growing evidence that city and LAFD officials attempted to burnish the ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation warning for possible debris flows in the Hollywood Hills.

Firefighters knocked down a small fire inside a boarded-up building in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Los Angeles Sunday. Firefighters responded to reports of smoke emerging from a commercial structure ...

A fire at a Hollywood building required 70 firefighters and 1 hour and 12 minutes to extinguish; one civilian was injured.

The LAFD's Swift Water Rescue team has responded to at least five calls of people in the L.A. River or washes that connect to ...

Los Angeles firefighters extinguished a car fire in a Sawtelle neighborhood building's parking area within 30 minutes.

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Councilmember Monica Rodriguez raised concerns about in-house after-action reports being overseen by political appointees.

At least one Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) official knew firefighters were ordered to leave the Lachman Fire site, which burned just days before the Pacific Palisades blaze, according to the Los ...

Firefighters hoisted a woman to safety Friday after she was stuck in a section of the rain-swollen Tujunga Wash in Arleta.

The author of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s after-action report on the Palisades fire declined to endorse it because of ...