After brutal fire season, California lawmakers call for seasonal firefighters to be employed year-round
State legislators are calling to extend Cal Fire's staffing to a year-round system, switching some roles from nine-month positions.
CA lawmakers propose $175 million increase for Cal Fire staffing
A new proposal would keep all fire engines and roughly 3,000 seasonal firefighters working year-round for Cal Fire.
Legislators ask for year-round staffing for Cal Fire firefighters
Cal Fire firefighters currently operate on season employment, working nine months out of the year before they're laid off during the winter months, like January, when the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted.
CAL FIRE firefighters could become year-round employees, new bill proposes
State legislators say the bipartisan bill would support overworked firefighters by addressing staffing issues.
California lawmakers renew effort to make state's firefighting force full-time and year-round
The three Louisiana poachers said they didn’t… President Donald Trump issued an executive order late last week canceling recently negotiated federal union contracts in an effort to target federal workers who had inked deals allowing telework.
As California’s fire season grows, state senators push for more year-round firefighters
Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire proposed that state firefighters work full time in place of the seasonal workforce the agency currently staffs for nine months each year.
California utility says its equipment likely sparked a blaze that erupted during January’s LA firestorm
A California utility said Thursday that its equipment likely sparked a wildfire in Los Angeles that broke out the same day as ...
LA Times Today: Edison under scrutiny for Eaton fire. Who pays liability will be ‘new frontier’ for California
The losses from past California wildfires sent one of the nation’s biggest utility companies into bankruptcy. So lawmakers ...
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Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Vehicles Were in the Maintenance Yard During the Wildfires
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines, the trucks, the ambulances," said IAFF Local ...
Los Angeles fire victims to be booted from Red Cross shelter to make space for film crews, events
Victims of the Los Angeles fires will have to move out of the Pasadena Convention Center in the coming days so it can return to filming events.
Allstate expects $1.1 billion loss from California fires
Allstate insurance said it expects a $1.1 billion loss from claims caused by the wildfires that swept through Southern California in January ...
Power Company Finds Irregularities in Equipment Where Eaton Fire Started
Southern California Edison said video evidence had led it to look more broadly at whether its equipment might have been the ...
Southern California Edison probing possible link to Los Angeles fires
Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of Edison International , said on Thursday that it was probing whether its ...
Snapchat co-founder, foundation leader launch community-centered fire recovery program
Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel, foundation chief Miguel Santana launch the Department of Angels to give community a voice ...
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CAL FIRE rescues three dozen people from floodwaters in Tehama and Glenn Counties
CORNING, Calif. - The CAL FIRE Tehama-Glenn Unity has been hard at work helping rescue people during the recent storms. As of ...
Despite his boasts, Trump's California water release order doesn't help L.A. fire victims
Chris Hayes explains how Trump's obsession with California's water supply, which led him to order the opening of dams, will ...
Cal Fire's predictions didn't foresee the Altadena inferno. Now it's changing its fire-hazard maps
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...