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 ...
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...
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How trucking is aiding LA fire victims
Fleets and trucking industry suppliers are responding to the fires that have raged across much of greater Los Angeles in 2025 ...
Does the L.A. Fire Department Have a Fleet of Electric Fire Trucks?
Social media users across X, Facebook, Threads, and Instagram have claimed that efforts to contain the fires have been ...
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LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five of the 40 available fire ...
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LAFD is doing all we can to fight LA fires. But we're dangerously understaffed. | Opinion
hundreds of additional firefighters and several dozen additional fire trucks, engines and ambulances to properly serve our population. Opinion:My heart breaks as Los Angeles burns. But where are ...
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
According to the California Energy Commission, more than 99,000 zero-emission vehicles were sold in Los Angeles County in 2024 alone, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric ...
What caused the Palisades blaze? Visual evidence points to a recent fire nearby.
The Post’s analysis offers evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using ...
With a forecast of dangerous winds, LAFD pre-deploys to avoid failings of Palisades fire
With more dangerous winds coming, LAFD says it has staffed all of its available extra engines and staged more than two dozen ...