The incompetence is shocking!

• In 2022, the LACoFD announced it was sending surplus “hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets, body armor, and other associated personal protective equipment” to Ukraine to aid first responders amid the Russian invasion. Additionally, fire engines from Kern County, in central California, were donated to Ukraine—possibly limiting the ability to rush units from other parts of the state to Los Angeles to help combat the current conflagrations, which have seen thousands of acres and homes burned.

• DEI Mayor Karen Bass made massive budget cuts to the fire department, which is really strange, considering one of California’s most popular seasons is literally called “Fire.” Karen Bass cut the fire department’s funding by a whopping $17.6 million.

• Water reservoirs, normally used to hold firefighting water, have been drained in order to help rejuvenate the salmon population.
  
  
• The county of Los Angeles sent "surplus" firefighting equipment to Ukraine. Additionally, fire engines from Kern County, in central California, were donated to Ukraine—possibly limiting the ability to rush units from other parts of the state to Los Angeles to help combat the current conflagrations, which have seen thousands of acres and homes burned.
• State Farm and a few other insurance companies, drop coverage from fire loss, in 2024. State insurance officials did not react.