The fire commissioners are appointed by the mayor and are supposed to provide civilian oversight for the Fire Department. But during critical discussions about the Palisades fire, the commissioners ...

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.

One person was taken to a hospital after Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters extracted a dark-colored sedan from the entrance of a Seven-Eleven store after it crashed in the Pico-Robertson ...

'What is missing is a trained volunteer crew that can be assigned in shifts to monitor 24/7 for many days at a time,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

A train struck and fatally injured a pedestrian Wednesday morning in Glassell Park, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported.

Firefighters Saturday stopped the forward progress of a grass fire that was burning near homeless encampments in the Pico-Union community of Los Angeles. Firefighters dispatched at 11:23 a.m. Saturday ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department said that a pedestrian was hit and killed by a train Wednesday in the city’s Glassell Park neighborhood. It happened at approximately 11:30 a.m. in the 2000 block of ...

Here is a sampling of things to do in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area. Today The Wall That Heals – Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replica: The three-quarter scale replica of the ...

A woman known for feeding the homeless each week in MacArthur Park was savagely attacked with a metal pipe while serving meals, leaving her with a shattered jaw and six teeth knocked out, according to ...

A person was killed and another person was critically injured this morning in a three-vehicle crash on the 110 Freeway in ...

A fire broke out Friday morning at a metal scrap yard in the Central-Alameda area of Los Angeles, but no injuries were reported. Crews responded at 11:23 a.m. to a large metals fire in the outside ...