Los Angeles City Fire Department
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. It may be unofficially referred to as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The LAFD responded to 444,325 incidents during 2010, with more than 80% being for emergency medical services.
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—Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)
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—Joan Didion (b. 1935)
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—Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)
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—Charles James Lever (1809–1872)
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How drifts are piled,
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Till even the comforting barn grows far away,
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether ‘tis in us to arise with day
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—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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