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 acquired in 2022.
It's Not True Half of LA Fire Trucks Are Electric or Take 10 Hours To Recharge
A rumor that half of LA's fire trucks are electric and they have to go back to the firehouse to recharge every eight to ten hours is circulating online. For example, the America's Last Line of Defense ...
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
California wildfire cleanup is complicated by highly combustible lithium-ion batteries found in electric and hybrid vehicles ...
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L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
As the Los Angeles Fire Department ... said. The department pre-positioned nine engines to the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood that were already on duty, expecting that fires might break out ...
The Washington Post23d
EV batteries can be risky in wildfires. Here’s what to know.
As deadly blazes continue to rage in the Los Angeles area, officials are grappling with new hazards amid the rubble: damaged batteries, including those from electric ... fire. Following the Maui ...
Los Angeles Doesn't Have Enough Fire Trucks Thanks To Private Equity
Los Angeles has been beset by fires this year, and it seems like every fire department around has done everything it can to ...
Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time
Thirteen years ago, the LAFD took the type of dramatic measures in preparation of dangerous winds that the department failed to employ last week in advance of the Palisades fire.
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Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Vehicles Were in the Maintenance Yard During the Wildfires
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...
NBC Los Angeles27d
Did city, LAFD prepare enough for Palisades Fire? Here's what we know
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its ... drove the Palisades and Eaton fires to destroy entire communities, the L.A. Fire Department began moving its ...
NPR27d
What LA did right before the fires — and why it wasn't enough
The roads are often winding and narrow, constructed decades ago before modern fire codes required widening them. That means during fast-moving fires, fire engines ... the Los Angeles Fire ...
New York Post26d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
The essential firefighting vehicles were still sitting in the Los Angeles Fire Department ... vehicles were 40 fire engines, which carry water and are used to fight fires, 36 ambulances, and ...