City Failed Residents with Fire Department Budget Cuts
Los Angeles Fire Department budget sustained cuts but saw overall increase
In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire department by $17.6 million from the previous year. At the time, the city of Los Angeles was negotiating the union contract with the firefighters' union, the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
The devastating wildfire in Pacific Palisades has put leaders on the defensive and led to a public spat over resources.
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley said that the City of Los Angeles failed its residents after failing to ...
Kristin Crowley, in multiple interviews, drew a connection between budget cuts to her department and the city’s struggle to ...
Firefighters scrambled Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed 16 ...
Los Angeles city and fire officials put on a united front Saturday following reports of a furious row over the handling of ...
The budget, approved last year by Bass, cut mainly administrative jobs but also axed about $7 million from its overtime ...
Meanwhile, the Palisades Fire, the most destructive in Los Angeles' history, has now burned over 23K acres, according to Cal ...
Chief Kristin Crowley said during an interview Friday that the city failed the department amid the ongoing wildfires in ...
As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County, a cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department 2025 ...
The mayor of Los Angeles has denied sacking the city’s fire chief amid growing criticism of the political response to the ...
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