The union representing Los Angeles city firefighters began a signature-gathering campaign Thursday to place a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot to address what it calls “decades of ...

As the Palisades Fire burned out of control under hurricane-force winds, some residents chose to stay and fight, like Cort Wagner. Wagner picked up a garden hose to take a stand against the flames ...

One year after the Los Angeles Fire Department was beaten back from containing a wind-fueled wildfire that wiped out a massive swath of Pacific Palisades, the union representing firefighters who were ...

Fire Station 63 covers the Venice area and is typically the first LAFD station dispatched to structure fires nearby, ...

Communication failures and questionable decisions led crews to leave the area prematurely; embers from the small Jan. 1 fire later reignited into the giant Palisades fire.