Los Angeles City Fire Department

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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    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)

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    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

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    “In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

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    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

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    These two who are my father and my mother
    Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?”
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)

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    —Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)