LAFD leaders engaged in campaign of secrecy and deflection designed to avoid taking full responsibility for what went wrong ...

Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook's email adds to the growing evidence that city and LAFD officials attempted to burnish the ...

The complaints of the author, Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook, reached Mayor Karen Bass' office in mid-November, after the LAFD ...

LAFD extinguished a house fire in Woodland Hills with no reported injuries. The fire began at 1:24 PM and was contained in 24 ...

For months, as victims pleaded for information, the Los Angeles Fire Department kept secret that its firefighters were ordered to stop mop-up operations on a small brushfire that continued to smolder ...

At least one Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) official knew firefighters were ordered to leave the Lachman Fire site, which burned just days before the Pacific Palisades blaze, according to the Los ...

The deletions and revisions are likely to deepen concerns over the LAFD's ability to acknowledge its mistakes before and ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Friday requested a full investigation into the fire department's handling of the Lachman Fire, which lead to the devastating Palisades Fire days later. A new LA Times ...

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters mopping up a small brush fire that authorities say reignited as the Palisades fire five days later were ordered to leave the original burn scene even though they complained ...

The LAFD extinguished a Christmas Day fire in a boarded-up Valley Village apartment within 20 minutes; no injuries reported.