The Los Angeles Fire Department utilizes heavy duty bulldozers and tractors for a variety of uses, ranging from pulling down severely damaged structures, to creating a fire break in the midst of a wildfire.

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.

Jan 14, 2025 · The Los Angeles fire chief recently admitted that over 100 pieces of firefighting equipment have been out of service during the wildfires that have ravaged California.

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]

Jan 23, 2025 · Social media users across X, Facebook, Threads, and Instagram have claimed that efforts to contain the fires have been hindered because the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) uses a fleet of electric trucks. “45 of Los Angeles fire trucks have to go back to the fire department for 10 hours a day to recharge instead of fighting fires after refueling in 7 minutes,” one post said, adding ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The Los Angeles Fire Department has one electric fire engine, but it does not have any electric fire trucks – a different type of vehicle, Stewart said.

This apparatus is assigned to the Critical Incident Planning and Training Section for maintenance and deployment. The Support Service Volunteer Unit assists the CIPTS staff with maintenance, design and deployment during a major incident that has requested an …

Jan 21, 2025 · Those are two very different types of apparatus (truck vs engine). The Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) purchased an electric fire engine and it is assigned to Fire Station 82 in Hollywood, as the department announced in a 2020 press release (archived here) shared with Lead Stories by Stewart.

LAFIRE.COM Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive Apparatus of the Los Angeles Fire Department The Complete Record Listed by Date from 1872 to 1998. Shop Numbers 1 through 1098 Shop Numbers 1 through 1098, (1872 - 1948) were researched by Walt Pittman. (NOTE - Horse drawn equipment shown in italics.)

During the past 20 years, the LAFDHS has accumulated a wide variety of artifacts, ranging from firefighting equipment from the 1880s, to more than 30 pieces of motorized apparatus, including some extremely rare fire engines.