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Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
The Los Angeles Fire Department has trucks ... The Seattle Fire Department says it faces even longer wait times, with ladder trucks orders taking 54 months — 4.5 years — to be fulfilled.
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What Fire Trucks Tell Us About Purchasing Problems in General
Local governments and manufacturers need to embrace standardized firefighting equipment. Otherwise, it’s going to cost too ...
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Los Angeles Crews Cool Compressed Gas Cylinders as Truck Burns
Los Angeles firefighters had their work cut out for them Wednesday when a trash truck with compressed gas cylinders caught fire. From a distance, firefighters trained a stream to keep the ...
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LAFD member recounts terrifying moment his truck was swept off PCH and into ocean during heavy rains
You may remember the frightening images when a mudslide suddenly swept a Los Angeles Fire Department SUV with a firefighter inside off Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and into the ocean during ...
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75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire ... Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau Of Supply and Maintenance lot in an industrial area Wednesday, still waiting to be repaired. Controversy over the the rows of idle ...
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Trash truck with compressed gas cylinders erupts in flames on L.A.’s Westside
according to an alert from the Los Angeles Fire Department. “Firefighters arrived on scene to find a city sanitation truck in a city yard, fully involved with fire,” Fire Department ...