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Here is another recent TV interview with Chief Crowley.

This story was aired a few weeks ago.

Monrovia, thanks for posting the latest up date to the LAFDs strategic plan. One of things that you should notice if you carefully examine the details of the Plan on page 12 under the first 2 on the list of Tactics 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 it mentions the need to "Complete a Citywide Standards of Coverage Analysis" which I had previously mentioned the LAFD has been undergoing. Based on the findings of the Standards of Coverage Analysis the City hopefully will have more detailed information as to the redeployment of apparatus and resources. This Standards of Coverage Analysis has been taking place since April of 2020 when the contract was signed with Citygate Associates, which happens to be a major fire and public safety consulting firm which has been doing major fire and emergency service deployment studies for a number of years for various fire departments. Another point that I would like to bring up is the LAFD is still not up to the full strength in terms of the amount of fire suppression companies that were in service before July of 2009 when the LAFD started taking companies out of service due to the recession. Before the reductions took place there were 101 Engine companies in service and 49 Truck companies in service which included 48 Light Forces and 1 single Truck company and currently there are only 42 Light Forces and 1 single Truck company. Even though several Engine companies were restored to service since the cutbacks after July of 2009 the LAFD is still at least 3 Engine companies short of what they had in service before July as of 2009. Of the 4 Haz Mat Squads 3 of them were fully manned and only one was crossmanned however as on now only one Haz Mat Squad is fully manned while the other 3 need to be crossmanned when they are needed.

Here is a news story and interview with Chief Crowley on her first year leading the LAFD and her plans.

Even though that relatively small piece of land just west of the Freeway might be still be vacant it really doesn't look like a good location due to its proximity to the Freeway. This proposed new station had been on the LAFDS wish list in 2006 when WIlliam Bamattre was the Chief of the LAFD. Under him there was a long range proposal and plans for both Fire and EMS (Rescue Ambulances) that he had drawn up however after he left the Fire Department in 2006 and especially when the recession had country and the LAFD had to go to the MODIFIED service plan where companies were taken out of service , that long range plan under Chief Bamattre was disregarded. While I don't have the developer's name who was supposed to develope that site for the proposed Fire Station 31 apparently nothing further was done about it as the work was supposed have been done and paid for by the developer who apparently defaulted.

Monrovia did you watch the newsclip video?. If you did you would find that the City Council member was interviewed for this news story. If you click your mouse on the photo of Engine 91s house it would have linked you to the news story. I am sure that due to the series of reports on FOX 11 (which was aired in February) that the fire department and at least some members of the City govenment are aware of this. I don't know whether you are aware of this but the LAFD under former Chief Terrazas had hired a public safety consulting group known as Citygate which is based in the Sacramento metro area and they have been doing an indepth "Standards of Coverage" study for the LAFD over the last approximately 2 years. The last that I had read they were going to release some of their finding at the April meeting of the Los Angeles fire commission. I don't know if the results of the entire study will be released at that meeting or if they will ask for an extension. The Citygate group has alot of experience studying and examining fire departments and making recommendations for fire stations in addition to fire companies and other related details. Whether the entire Citygate study of the LAFD will be released at the April Fire Commission meeting I can't answer but I am sure that it will probably be released as a report within the next year. If you take your time and listen to that FOX news report you would have seen that the fact that there had been plans in 2006 to build a fire station and that the population of Sylmar has been growing and aging according to the story, that the need for an additional fire station in the Sylmar area seems to be pretty obvious.

A new fire station and fire company was supposed to have been built for the LAFD city fire department in 2006 by a developer but was never built. The City had even broke ground at 16320 Foothill Drive but the developer didn't follow through however the need for at least one additional station in Sylmar hasn't gone away and as recent as February 2023 Fox News 11 did an excerpt on the need for the Fire Staton which was supposed to be number 31, but was never built.

Thanks for putting that video on line. That is exactly what I am talking about. I really wonder why the LAFD chose the European Style Fire Engine as opposed to the Pierce Volterra? Beside the Pierce Volterra being a Traditional American Style Fire Engine, the LAFD already had a contract with Pierce and Pierce has been a regular supplier to the LAFD so it seems kind of strange that the LAFD wouldn't just buy their "Electric" Fire Engine from Pierce?

The Chief ot the Los Angeles City Fire Department was Officially called the Chief Engineer for many years and that was part of the title until at least the late 80s or early 90s if not latee. Does anyone on this site know the year the the Title 'Chief Engineer' was dropped and changed to the "Chief of the Fire Department"? When the Title was Changed was it done to simplify things or was it done for another purpose?

The New Electric Fire Engine really is more a European and a "Overseas" design. Most European and other countries including the Mid East and Asia have fire engines that look alot like that. If you notice the Engine company looks alot more like a bus without windows. There are other electric fire engines that being made more to an American Design and I personally prefer an American Traditional Design to this Overseas design.

Thanks for replying to my questions as it just seems weird how those La County Stations seem to be isolated in the an area that is mainly dominated by Los Angeles City Stations.

No I wasn't aware of it thanks. I do remember some years ago like in the early 90s Sanrte Fe Springs did run with a Tower Ladder however.

In LA county's Station 110's district which is Marina Delray while they have both an Engine company and a Tillered Quint however, there is no Paramedic Squad assigned so I was wondering what does the LA County FD do when there is a request for EMS service? Does Engine 110 or Quint 110 respond as a paramedic unit so they don't have to dispatch a Paramedic Squad from a Station that is several miles further into LA County's jurisdictional area? LA County Station 58 is the nearest county station with a Paramedic Squad assigned to it however Station 58 is about 5 1/2 miles further east in the Ladera Heights area, so even if LA county were to dispatch Squad 58, the drive into station 110s district would be over 10 minutes and may even be longer then 15 minutes if the incident is on the farthest end of 110's district. There are 3 LA City fire stations that are actually closer to LA county 110's district then Station 58 is. LA city Stations 63, 67 and 62 are all closer to Station 110s area then Station 58 is and besides Station 58 being over 5 miles away there is no guarantee that the Squad would be available so if Squad 58 is not available LA county would need to dispatch a Squad that would be even farther away. While LA county Stations 110 and 58 are located in Battalion 1 the stations in LA county Battalion 1 (with the exception of Stations 7 and 8 and 58 and 38) are so spread out and far from each other they might as well be located in different cities as the stations that are assigned to LA county Battalion 1 are not even in a contiguous territory like most other Fire Battalions are laid out. LA county Battalion 1 has Station 51 which is located in the south end of the Valley and then there are stations 7 and 8 which are located in West LA and then there are Station 38 and 58 which are in Windsor Hills and Ladera Heights. Then there is Station 110 located at Marina Delray. Besides Stations 7 and 8 all of the rest of the Station in Battalion 1 service other areas which in most cases are not even in the same geographical areas. Another related question I have is when there is a reported Structure fire in Station 110's area who are the 2nd and 3rd due fire companies into Station 110's area ? Does LA county have an automatic aid agreement with the LA city fire department so that Stations 63, 67 and 62 will respond into Station 110s district or does LA county automatically dispatch Stations 58 and 38 as well as Stations 7 and 8 into Station 110s area? It is almost ridiculous that Marina Delray isn't given over to the CIty of Los Angeles rather then remain under County Jurisdiction as beside the Marina and some of it's surrounding streets that area is surrounded by the city on three sides and La City fire stations virtually surround Station 110's district. Assuming that Station 110s 2 units are equipped and trained as Paramedic units it would also make sense to have automatic responses from LA city fire department ambulances at Stations 63, 67 and 62 as the the La City Paramedic ambulances from Stations 63 and 62 are closer to Marina Delray then the nearest LA county Squad is. That's not to mention that La County needs to have a private Ambulance dispatched into their areas to do patient removals.

I was wondering if there has been any changes to the Category A response guidelines over the last year or 2. The Category A guidelines for fire in a single family dwelling consisted of One Light Force 3 Engines , 2 Rescue Ambulances preferably 1 ALS and 1 BLS plus one or two Battalion Chiefs plus an Ems Captain. As of the last several months on all of the Alert run downs that I have read 2 Light forces were always listed in addition to 2 or 3 Engine companies so I was wondering if the LAFD has increase the Category A response protocols to include a 2nd Light Force now. I have also noticed that on quite a few Category B fires which include multiple dwelling apartment buildings and commercial structures that 3 Light Forces have been list on the companies responding and I know that the minimum Light Force response to those fires had included 2 Light Forces so like in my previous question about Category B responses if the minimum Light Light Force responses have been increased? I also have a third question and that is which company assumes the RIT (Rapid Intervention Team responsibilities) at the Category A and the Catergory B fires. Is it the third due Engine company or do they assign the RIT Team duties to a Light Force? In Chicago if the fire is a working fire a third Truck and a 2nd Battalion Chief will be dispatched specifically as the RIT companies in addition to a RIT ambulance. In the New York City they also will dispatch a third Truck as the FAST Truck which is what the RIT designation is called in New York City. On the LAFD dispatch rundowns I never read about any designated RIT companies however I am sure that you must have at least one or two companies assigned to RIT duties as they have been an OSHA safety requirement for fire departments as well as from the National Fire Protection Association.