Dozens of service emergency vehicles are sitting unused at a maintenance yard in Lincoln Heights, following the $18 million budget cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
SCE concedes in the filing that a conductor failure occurred near the origin of the fire, causing damaged equipment to fall to the ground at the base of a tower.
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...
Firefighters who reported to assist during the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires were kept from helping on the front ...
Firefighters who reported to assist during the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires were kept from helping on the front ...