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LA City Council Calls for Report to Prepare Fire Department for EV Fires
The Los Angeles City Council Friday approved a motion seeking an assessment of the Fire Department’s equipment and training in a bid to improve their capabilities of addressing electric vehicle fires.
Torrents of mud and floodwater cover roads and trap cars in LA, but city dodges another disaster
As Southern California recovers from last month’s devastating wildfires, heavy rain resulted in pockets of flooding, blocked ...
LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month
Six weeks after devastating wildfires, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief amid a public rift over ...
Days After L.A. Fires, Firefighter Began Waking Up to Count the Things He Lost That Couldn't Be Replaced (Exclusive)
Los Angeles City Fire Inspector John Stuhlman III tried to save his neighbors house, then his own — but eventually, he realized it was a lost cause, and he'd already stayed too long. Now he tells ...
Eastern U.S. braces for flooding while fire-damaged California city now faces mudslides
Residents of a Southern California mountain community near the Eaton Fire burn scar are digging out of roads submerged in ...
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‘Unprecedented' number of lithium ion batteries complicates LA wildfires cleanup
They power plug-in hybrid cars and EVs, many of which were destroyed ... of a scale and this many electric vehicles," said LA City Fire Capt. Adam VanGerpen. "This is an unprecedented amount ...