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LAFD Fights Fires On Land And Sea

California wildfires again riveted theAngeles population of just 50,000 to become
nation's attention during a roughly two-weekone of the country's largest firefighting
period beginning in mid-October 2007. Whenservices. Today's force levels top out at
wildfires strike the Golden State, overallslightly more than 3,600 uniformed
responsibility for fighting the blazes is infirefighters, who man more than a hundred
the hands of CAL FIRE, the Californiafire stations. More than 4 million L.A.
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.residents currently rely on the LAFD for fire
However, a number of local counties, rangingprevention, fire fighting, EMC services,
from Marin, Kern and Santa Barbara tohazmat  mitigation  and  disaster  response.
Ventura, Orange and Los Angeles County, are
paid by CAL FIRE to provide wildfire servicesAn important but often overlooked part of the
nominally considered the State'sthe force comprises the five fire boats that
responsibility.protect the Port of Los Angeles. Perched on
the shores of San Pedro Bay, about thirty
While most of the damage caused by thekilometers due south of downtown Los Angeles,
October 2007 wildfires was in San Diegothe Port of Los Angeles is the busiest
County, firefighters from the Los Angelescontainer port in the United States with a
Fire Department (LAFD) nevertheless respondedcontainer volume of 7.4 million TEUs in 2004,
to several wildfires in Los Angeles County.the last year for which figures of this kind
According to the LAFD website, firefightersare available. The Port also has the West
from the city's fire department rolled out toCoast's largest cruise ship facility, which
both the so-called Buckweed Fire near Aguahandles in excess of one million cruise ship
Dulce, about twelve miles north of Lospassengers  annually.
Angeles, and the so-called Canyon Fire, a
brush fire about eight miles west of LosFive fire boats guard the Port of Los Angeles
Angeles near Malibu, California. Overall, thefrom fires that have the potential to be just
LAFD deployed five Strike Teams comprisingas devastating as the California wildfires of
some 150 firefighters during the October2007. The latest of these, the Warner
wildfire  crisis.Lawrence, is a 105-foot powerhouse with the
ability to pump 38,000 gallons of water per
The Los Angeles Fire Department is consideredminute at heights of up to 400 feet. The
well-equipped to serve the fire-preventionWarner Lawrence replaced the LAFD's oldest
and fire-fighting needs of America's secondfire boat, the 78-year-old Ralph J. Scott, in
biggest city. Launched formally in 1886April 2003. Matt Paolini is a senior
through the amalgamation of several volunteerresearcher for CityBook, the family-safe
fire companies founded as early as the 1870s,Online Yellow Pages, which carries an
the LAFD has grown from its originalextensive directory on Los Angeles civil law.
complement of four fire stations and a Los



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