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LAFD Fights Fires On Land And Sea

California wildfires again riveted theLos Angeles population of just 50,000 to
nation's attention during a roughlybecome one of the country's largest
two-week period beginning in mid-Octoberfirefighting services. Today's force
2007. When wildfires strike the Goldenlevels top out at slightly more than
State, overall responsibility for3,600 uniformed firefighters, who man
fighting the blazes is in the hands ofmore than a hundred fire stations. More
CAL FIRE, the California Department ofthan 4 million L.A. residents currently
Forestry and Fire Protection. However, arely on the LAFD for fire prevention,
number of local counties, ranging fromfire fighting, EMC services, hazmat
Marin, Kern and Santa Barbara tomitigation and disaster response.
Ventura, Orange and Los Angeles County,An important but often overlooked part
are paid by CAL FIRE to provide wildfireof the the force comprises the five fire
services nominally considered theboats that protect the Port of Los
State's responsibility.Angeles. Perched on the shores of San
While most of the damage caused by thePedro Bay, about thirty kilometers due
October 2007 wildfires was in San Diegosouth of downtown Los Angeles, the Port
County, firefighters from the Losof Los Angeles is the busiest container
Angeles Fire Department (LAFD)port in the United States with a
nevertheless responded to severalcontainer volume of 7.4 million TEUs in
wildfires in Los Angeles County.2004, the last year for which figures of
According to the LAFD website,this kind are available. The Port also
firefighters from the city's firehas the West Coast's largest cruise ship
department rolled out to both thefacility, which handles in excess of one
so-called Buckweed Fire near Agua Dulce,million cruise ship passengers annually.
about twelve miles north of Los Angeles,Five fire boats guard the Port of Los
and the so-called Canyon Fire, a brushAngeles from fires that have the
fire about eight miles west of Lospotential to be just as devastating as
Angeles near Malibu, California.the California wildfires of 2007. The
Overall, the LAFD deployed five Strikelatest of these, the Warner Lawrence, is
Teams comprising some 150 firefightersa 105-foot powerhouse with the ability
during the October wildfire crisis.to pump 38,000 gallons of water per
The Los Angeles Fire Department isminute at heights of up to 400 feet. The
considered well-equipped to serve theWarner Lawrence replaced the LAFD's
fire-prevention and fire-fighting needsoldest fire boat, the 78-year-old Ralph
of America's second biggest city.J. Scott, in April 2003. Matt
Launched formally in 1886 through thePaolini is a senior researcher for
amalgamation of several volunteer fireCityBook, the family-safe Online Yellow
companies founded as early as the 1870s,Pages, which carries an extensive
the LAFD has grown from its originaldirectory on Los Angeles civil law.
complement of four fire stations and a



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