Los Angeles Firefighters Begged the City Not to Cut Funding

The Los Angeles Fire Department knew it was severely underfunded long before this fire. “We don’t have enough firefighters and medics, we don’t have enough fire engines, we don’t have enough trucks and ambulances in the field,” Freddy Escobar, an LAFD Captain II told the city during his testimony at a budget hearing on May 1, 2024. [...]