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The Los Angeles Fire Department ( LAFD or LA City Fire) provides firefighting services as well as technical rescue services, hazardous materials services and emergency medical services to the citizens of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. [ 6] The LAFD is responsible for approximately four million people who live in the agency ...
The Los Angeles County Fire Department ( LACoFD) provides firefighting and emergency medical services for the unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, California, [ 1] as well as 59 cities through contracting, including the city of La Habra, [ 4] which is located in Orange County and is the first city outside of Los Angeles County to ...
Los Angeles County is the most populous county in the United States, and the largest municipal government in the nation. If the County were a state, it would be the 9th most populous state in the United States, in between Georgia and North Carolina. As of 2020, the Board of Supervisors oversees a $35.5 billion annual budget and over 112,000 ...
The Los Angeles Library Association was formed in late 1872, and by early 1873, a well-stocked reading room had opened in the Downey Block at Temple and Main streets under the first librarian, John Littlefield. [7] [8] Los Angeles Public Library is a library with 6 million works located in Los Angeles, United States of America. The library was ...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist the LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group.
The massive fire that forced the indefinite closure of Interstate 10, a major traffic artery in Los Angeles, was set intentionally, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
The aqueduct project began in 1905 when the voters of Los Angeles approved a US$1.5 million bond for the 'purchase of lands and water and the inauguration of work on the aqueduct'. On June 12, 1907, a second bond was passed with a budget of US$24.5 million to fund construction. [ 13 ][ 14 ] Construction began in 1908 and was divided into eleven ...
He says he was later disciplined in violation of the 1st Amendment. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times) A prominent captain in the Los Angeles Fire Department sued the city Monday after he was ...