No, LAFD doesn’t have 45 electric fire trucks that take hours to recharge | Fact check
A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was acquired in 2022.
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FACT CHECK: Threads Post Makes False Claim About LAFD, Electric Fire Trucks
A post shared on Threads claims the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) has 45 electric fire trucks that take 10 hours to recharge. View on Threads Verdict: False The LAFD has not issued a press ...
It's Not True Half of LA Fire Trucks Are Electric or Take 10 Hours To Recharge
A rumor that half of LA's fire trucks are electric and they have to go back to the firehouse to recharge every eight to ten hours is circulating online. For example, the America's Last Line of Defense ...
LA fires: SoCal Edison says equipment likely caused Hurst Fire
New regulatory filing shows power line surges, problems during high winds, including at a transmission tower near start of ...
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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 ... said. The department pre-positioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood that were already on duty, expecting that fires might break out ...
Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time
Thirteen years ago, the LAFD took the type of dramatic measures in preparation of dangerous winds that the department failed to employ last week in advance of the Palisades fire.
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Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Vehicles Were in the Maintenance Yard During the Wildfires
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...
Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
Los Angeles has been beset by fires this year, and it seems like every fire department around has done everything it can to ...
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LAFD is doing all we can to fight LA fires. But we're dangerously understaffed. | Opinion
As a proud 35-year veteran and current captain with the Los Angeles Fire Department ... fires, but we don’t have the resources to accommodate them. The LAFD fleet maintenance yard has 22 engines ...
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Did city, LAFD prepare enough for Palisades Fire? Here's what we know
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its ... drove the Palisades and Eaton fires to destroy entire communities, the L.A. Fire Department began moving its ...
New York Post27d
The Los Angeles fires are a human disaster long in the making
As the community of Pacific Palisades in the city of Los Angeles burned to the ground Tuesday night, LA Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana to attend the inauguration of that country’s new president ...
New York Post22d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
The essential firefighting vehicles were still sitting in the Los Angeles Fire Department ... vehicles were 40 fire engines, which carry water and are used to fight fires, 36 ambulances, and ...