The Los Angeles Fire Department released its after-action report, detailing the challenges its personnel faced in the first 36 hours of the Palisades Fire, which included staffing shortages, ...

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The Los Angeles Fire Department needs to overhaul its staffing policies, improve communication systems and enhance wildfire training following the devastating Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and ...

The Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and leveled much of the community was the result of a “perfect storm” of leadership and communication challenges, exacerbated by “dry vegetation, unrelenting ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Since the Los Angeles Fire Department is still not answering ABC7 On Your Side Investigates' specific questions on how it mopped up the Lachman Fire, we spent ...