With the wildfires in the Los Angeles area still raging, a new exclusive report from the UK’s Daily Mail’s Perkin Amalaraj reveals that the Los Angeles Fire Department has, for some time, been literally begging the city council for funding to replace aging equipment and hire new maintenance staff. Those pleas went unanswered, and now we see the results.
The Los Angeles Fire Department begged the city’s council for nearly $100 million to replace its entire fleet just two months before the deadly wildfires, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The infernos that are consuming Los Angeles have so far killed at least 24 and have displaced more than 200,000 people, and critics have been excoriating the city’s leadership for their decision to cut the LAFD’s already dwindling budget.
In a preliminary budget request for 2025/26, signed by Fire Chief Kristin Rowley, made on…
