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Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley talks during a news conference at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in the West Carson area of Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

L.A. mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history

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FILE - Vehicles drive past the Morrison Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)

‘Morrison Hotel’ made famous by The Doors goes up in flames in Los Angeles

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Closeup of Los Angeles Fire Department truck. File photo credit: ZikG via Shutterstock.

Fire engulfing crashed tractor-trailer hauling lithium batteries burns on and on at Los Angeles port

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Los Angeles Fire Department to purchase electric fire engine

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Taxi passenger killed in collision with LA ambulance

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Crews battle small fire in Hollywood Hills

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Firefighters battle the Sandalwood Fire as it destroys homes in the Villa Calimesa Mobile Home Park in Calimesa, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Burning trash dumped along a road sparked a wildfire Thursday that high winds quickly pushed across a field of dry grass and into a Southern California mobile home park, destroying dozens of residences. (Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP)

The Latest: Fire witness reports sparks near electric lines

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LAFD uses helicopter to hoist fallen horse from hillside

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Blaze destroys building in LA’s North Hollywood area

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In this Nov. 9, 2018 photo from video provided by the Los Angeles Fire Department, LAFD Air Operations pilot David Nordquist records as copilot Joel Smith leads a group of three adults and two dogs to their water-dropping helicopter atop Castro Peak in the Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu, Calif. The video was recorded as the pilots battled the Woolsey Fire, which was raging through the Santa Monica Mountains toward Malibu. The crew was making a water drop when it was requested to divert to Castro Peak for the rescue, despite dwindling fuel and flames coming near. (David Nordquist/Los Angeles Fire Department via AP)

Helicopter crew saves people, pets on peak during wildfire

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LA program seeks to reduce ER visits with ‘sober center’

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The Latest: Power restored to 50,000 customers, agency says

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LA City Fire arson investigators at the scene in the 400 block of Heliotrope Drive in East Hollywood Monday, June 12, 2017, after a fire heavily damaged an apartment building under construction and also damaged an adjacent apartment building, a garage and a house. Firefighters extinguished the flames in about 45 minutes with 1 minor injury to a firefighter. A suspect who may have set the fires is in custody. (Al Seib /Los Angeles Times via AP)

The Latest: Man arrested in connection with Los Angeles fire

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50,000 gallons of oil spill on California streets

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Only female Los Angeles fire recruit resigns

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Man badly burned in West Los Angeles house fire

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LAFD to overhaul procedures for handling 911 calls

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LAFD needs until 2016 to get to full staffing

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