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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Los_Angeles_Fire_DepartmentLos Angeles Fire Department - Wikipedia

    The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD or LA City Fire) provides firefighting services as well as technical rescue services, hazardous materials services and emergency medical services to the citizens of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. [ 6 ] The LAFD is responsible for approximately four million people who live in the agency ...

  2. www.lafd.org › about › historyOver a Century of Service | Los Angeles Fire Department

    Today, Los Angeles still refers to its fire stations in the plural - Engine 86s, or simply, 86s. Today, the Los Angeles Fire Department responds to more than 1,300 emergency responses every day. Approximately 3,200 uniformed members protect over four million people, and the department transports more than 600 people to area hospitals every day. 2018 marks the 132nd anniversary of this storied ...

  3. fire.fandom.com › wiki › Los_Angeles_Fire_DepartmentLos Angeles Fire Department | Firefighting Wiki | Fandom

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    The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) provides fire protection and life safety services 24/7 to the roughly 3.9 million residents of the City of Los Angeles, the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous in the United States (after New York City). LAFD is also unofficially referred to as the Los Angeles City Fire Departm...

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    The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was established on February 1, 1886 and is currently the 3rd busiest fire department in the United States, behind the FDNY and Chicago Fire Department. Staffing wise, there are 3,866 budgeted positions within the Department, including sworn and non-sworn/professional support personnel. The Los Angeles Fire Dep...

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    Currently, LAFD is comprised of the following resources:

    •4 Bureaus

    •14 Battalions (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18)

    •106 Fire stations

    •98 Engine companies (Some paired with "Light Force" companies to form "Task Force" companies)

    •42 Light Force companies consisting of:

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    The origins of the Los Angeles Fire Department date back to the year 1871. In September of that year, George M. Fall, the County Clerk for Los Angeles County, organized Engine Company No. 1. It was a volunteer firefighting force with an Amoskeag fire engine and a hose jumper (cart). The equipment was hand-drawn to fires. In the spring of 1874, the fire company asked the Los Angeles City Council to purchase horses to pull the engine. The Council refused and the fire company disbanded. Many of the former members of Engine Company No. 1 reorganized under the name Thirty-Eights No. 1 in May 1875, Engine Co. No. 2 was organized under the name Confidence Engine Company.

    In 1875, Los Angeles acquired its first "hook and ladder" truck for the Thirty-Eights. It proved to be too cumbersome and was ill-adapted to the needs of the city. It was sold to the city of Wilmington, itself now a neighborhood of Los Angeles. In 1876, another "hook and ladder" truck was purchased, serving in the city until 1881. In 1878, a third fire company was formed by the residents in the neighborhood of Sixth Street and Park. It was given the name of "Park Hose Co. No. 1". In 1883, East Los Angeles formed a hose company named "East Los Angeles Hose Co. No. 2". The final volunteer company was formed in the fall of 1883 in the Morris Vineyard area. This company was called "Morris Vineyard Hose Co. No.3." In 1877, the first horses were bought for the city fire department. The department would continue to use horses for its equipment for almost fifty years, phasing out the last horse drawn equipment on July 19, 1921.

    On February 1, 1886, the Los Angles Fire Department was officially formed and went into service with four fire stations, two steam powered 750 gallon per minute pumpers, each housed with a two-wheel hose reel, a hook and ladder truck, a hose wagon and 11 horses. On that day the city began to pay 31 firefighters, including a chief engineer and an assistant chief, for a service which, for 15 years, had been provided virtually without pay by 380 members of the Los Angeles Volunteer Fire Department, Most of the paid, or permanent men as they were officially designated, were former volunteers who took over the existing stations and equipment. Augmenting the permanent force were 24 reserve firefighters - most likely they were former volunteers also, who were , starting that day, to be paid a small annual honorarium.

    By 1900, the department had grown to 18 fire stations with 123 full-time paid firefighters and 80 fire horses. The city had also installed 194 fire-alarm boxes allowing civilians to sound the alarm if a fire was spotted. Lastly, 660 fire hydrants were placed throughout the city, giving firefighters access to a reliable water source. In 1955, fire station 78 in Studio City became the first racially integrated station in the LAFD.

    Since 1978, the LAFD has provided emergency medical and fire suppression services to the city of San Fernando by contract.

    In 2022, Kristin Crowley became the first female, and the first openly gay, chief of the LAFD.

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    Repair Facility - 140 North Avenue 19

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    •Emergency Response 1 (06233) - 2023 Ram 5500 / Braun Northwest 147" hazmat (SN#3821-4)

    •Emergency Response 2 (06234) - 2023 Ram 5500 / Braun Northwest 147" hazmat (SN#3822-4)

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    •(11998) - 2017 Ram 4500 / North Star ambulance (CA#1520207) (VIN#3C7WRKBL4HG654030) (Ex-Rescue Ambulance 102, sold at auction)

    •(11967) - 2015 Ram 4500 / North Star ambulance (CA#1470311) (VIN#3C7WRKBL0FG670819) (Ex-Rescue Ambulance 867) (Written off after fatal traffic collision on December 28, 2019)

    •(11951) - 2014 Ram 4500 / North Star ambulance (CA#1402484) (VIN#3C7WRKBL3EG281834) (Ex-Rescue Ambulance 848) (Involved in a MVA at 223rd & Vermont in Harbor Gateway on 29 June 2019, sustaining major front end damage, sold at auction)

    •(11887) - 2012 Ram 4500 / North Star ambulance (CA#1371090) (VIN#3C7WDKBL5CG239502) (Ex-Rescue Ambulance 4, sold at auction)

    •(11861) - 2011 Ram 4500 / North Star ambulance (CA#1356181) (VIN#3D6WA6EL3BG615809) (Ex-Rescue Ambulance 66, sold at auction)

    •(11842) - 2011 Ram 4500 / North Star ambulance (CA#1279884) (VIN#3D6WA6EL1BG557859) (Ex-Rescue Ambulance 14) (Written off after traffic collision)

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    •Retired Apparatus

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  5. www.lafra.org › lafd-history-the-lafd-is-130-yearsLAFD History – The LAFD is 130 Years Old - The Relief

    Jan 31, 2016 · Although no firemen were assigned regularly to these two vessels, during emergencies, firefighters from land-based fire stations would board the tugs and go to work. Los Angeles purchased its first fireboat, the “Aeolian,” in 1915. This 20-foot long, wooden fireboat, believed to have been built in Seattle, went into service in 1916.

  6. www.lafd.org › about › historyHISTORY - Los Angeles Fire Department

    The history of the Los Angeles Fire Department is one of the most unique and inspiring in U.S. fire service history. More Than a Century of Service LAFD Museums

  7. www.lafra.org › lafd-history-lafd-131-years-oldLAFD History - The LAFD is 131 Years Old - The ... - The Relief

    Jan 31, 2017 · In 1886, Los Angeles’ 30 square miles roughly encompassed an area of structural density only as far north as Ord Street and south to 7th street. The easternmost area of building concentration did not extend much past Los Angeles Street and Olive Street on the west. Six years before the start of the LAFD, the city’s population was 11,183.

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  9. www.lacountyfiremuseum.com › history-of-the-lacofdHISTORY of the LACoFD - Los Angeles County Fire Museum

    HISTORY OF THELOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT. State California County Los Angeles. Established 1923 Annual calls 394,585 (2017) Employees 2813 (2018) Annual budget $1.150 billion (2017) Staffing Career/Paid-On CallFire Chief Daryl L. Osby. Facilities and EquipmentDivisions 9 Battalions 22 Stations 174 – 171 frontline (staffed & call) 50 ...