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August 8, 2013
Mission Creep at the L.A. Fire Department
The LAFD has become a huge mobile health clinic. And that's simply unsustainable
Blogs
June 27, 2013
Antonio Villaraigosa's Staff Down To A Skeleton Crew As Garcetti Seeks Near-Total Turnover
Outgoing mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has kept up a full schedule in the waning days of his administration. He has repeatedly said that he will keep working until his term ends at 11:59 and 59 seconds on the night of Sunday, June 30.The same, however, cannot be said for his staff. The mayor's people h ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2013
Villaraigosa Endorses Half-Cent Sales Tax You'll Vote On In March
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been on the fence, or at least noticeably quiet, about a proposed sales-tax hike that will come before L.A. city voters March 5. Today the Yes on A campaign revealed that our leader is giving Proposition A his support. According to a statement from the camp Villaraig ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2012
L.A. Fire Department to Search Within Own Beleaguered Ranks for New Data Expert (Uh-Oh)
Last time the L.A. City Fire Department relied on its own staff to keep track of emergency response times and other crucial data, here's what happened: Firefighters, office workers, dispatchers, etc. -- working on a dinosauric computer system -- hastily lumped calls that took six minutes into the " ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
L.A. Fire Response Times: Mayor Rips Into City Attorney, Demands Release of Public Info
Never have we seen two L.A. city departments stage a fight so brazenly hostile in the public square. In a new seven-page letter from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office to City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's office (embedded below), mayoral counsel Brian Currey claims the latter is holding the public ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2012
L.A. Fire Department Posts Gruesome Photos of Train vs. Benz Crash in Downtown L.A.
One week after the controversial media blackout on L.A. Fire Department response times and addresses -- ordered by Fire Chief Brian Cummings -- is the department overcompensating for its much-ridiculed secrecy? LAFD photographers Rick McClure and Mike Meadows snapped some insane photos of a train v ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
LAFD Starts Media Blackout on Fires, Rescues After Bad Press on Response Times
What happened? We don't know. Where did it happen? Not sure. That's the word from the Los Angeles Fire Department which, since Sunday, has apparently been refusing to give members of the media basic information about fires, rescue operations and paramedic responses. That's something it used to do ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
L.A. Fire Department's Public-Information Blackout: Is Withholding Response Times, Addresses Even Legal?
It was terrifying enough when L.A. Fire Department Chief Brian L. Cummings recently admitted to lying about his department's emergency response times to L.A. City Hall, leading to more dangerous cuts for LAFD. But the worst possible thing he could do, now that taxpayers have learned that their fire ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
LAFD Chief Brian Cummings' Media Blackout Is Illegal and Self-Serving, Says LA.'s Top Free-Speech Attorney
[Update: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who hand-picked Cummings last September and has been lovingly tugging at the chief's puppet strings ever since, totally humiliated his political plaything this afternoon by demanding -- via passive-aggressive "open letter" -- that the LAFD go back to its old meth ... More >>
News
March 15, 2007
What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?
A dog-food prank gone bad wrecks careers and morale as Tennie Pierce demands millions