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Mentor approves fire engine sale, SWAT vehicle purchase for police department
Mentor City Council has approved two proposals involving public safety vehicles for the fire and police departments. A ...
Los Angeles Times14d
Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time
Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing for the kind of dangerous winds that could drive flames across hillsides and canyons and tear through neighborhoods from ...
Los Angeles Times18d
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 ...
AOL17d
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 ...