Chicago firefighters use vessel to break ice river during the winter
When it's winter in Chicago, even the river needs a plow. The city entrusts the experts at the Chicago Fire Department to ...
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Donald Trump Touts Political Firings and Retribution as He Begins a Government Overhaul at DOJ, FBI and State
President Trump and his team wasted little time reassigning nearly two dozen senior Justice Department officials ...
California is years behind in implementing a law to make homes more fire resistant
California is years behind in implementing a 2020 law aiming to make it harder for homes to burn during a wildfire. It was ...
New threats emerge as massive LA fires rewrite records for death and destruction
Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.
Chicago OIG finds Fire Department covered for high-ranking supervisor found asleep at wheel
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Fire Department was accused in a new report by the city's Office of the Inspector General's office of covering up for a high-ranking supervisor who was found asleep behind ...
Chicago fire officials whisked away a supervisor found asleep at the wheel, then lied about it, report finds
Inspector General Deborah Witzburg’s office pushed CFD to fire three people involved in the cover-up and place them on the ...
‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
A CNN analysis of the 10 largest US cities and other comparable departments shows the Los Angeles Fire Department is less ...
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Georgia house fire kills 3 young kids and 2 adults
Early indications point to an electrical malfunction as the cause, the Whitfield County Fire Department said in a statement. It happened in the small town of Cohutta, Georgia, north of Dalton. “There ...
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California Caught Off Guard By Massive Fires After LA Fire Dept Spent Years Pushing ‘Racial Equity’
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) committed significant resources to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives before the outbreak of massive fires that devastated the Los Angeles area ...
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Arsonists caught on video as LA burns; half of fires historically set by homeless
In 2023, City Journal reported on how the Los Angeles Fire Department spent approximately $427 million of its $854 million total on homeless-related fires; two years earlier, a Los Angeles Times ...