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The city of Los Angeles needs more firefighters and paramedics amid an increase in medical calls, a new report found. Eric Leonard reports June 6, 2023.

A new study says the LA Fire Department needs to hire more firefighters and paramedics as response times have increased amid huge demands for emergency medical services.

Firefighters, with an assist from LA Animal Services, successfully dug out a horse that was trapped in a narrow wedge in Sylmar Sunday.

Newschopper four over a horse rescue in Sylmar. The horse got stuck in a narrow wedge just after 4:30 this afternoon. It took about an hour for fire and animal rescue crews to get the horse free. The animal did not appear to be injured.

Four people were hospitalized Thursday morning after they were exposed to leaking gases at a refinery in Wilmington.

A missing single-engine airplane was found on a steep hillside that includes a large water tank above a home at 3045 Beverly Glen Circle, where the sole occupant was pronounced dead at the scene. 

A team of 96 firefighters put out a blaze in a 7,000-square-foot metal processing business in downtown Los Angeles Saturday night from outside the building while protecting nearby structures.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department is deploying a team to help the rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria following the earthquake that killed over 3,700 people. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC4 News on Feb. 6, 2023.

An LAFD captain and cancer survivor will be riding on the City of Hope’s float at the Rose Parade trying to inspire others not to give up hope. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on Dec. 28, 2022.

An LAFD fire captain and cancer survivor will be riding the City of Hope’s float at the Rose Parade hoping to inspire others not to give up.

Ten Van Nuys middle school students were treated for a possible cannabis overdose. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News on Dec. 1, 2022.

Firefighter-paramedics responded Thursday to a medical emergency involving possible cannabis overdoses at a middle school in Van Nuys.

Mayor Eric Garcetti along with Fire Chief Kristin Crowley announced the LAFD’s first-ever Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bureau.

A fire burns at a home goods store in Huntington Park. Video broadcast Tuesday Nov. 22, 2022 on Today in LA.

Firefighters are battling a large fire burning at a commercial building in Huntington Park.

Several people were injured after a vehicle drove through a South Central carnival Saturday night, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Five individuals were rushed to the hospital for possible drug overdoses in Granada Hills Saturday morning.

One person was killed and another person was injured Saturday morning after a big rig crash took place on the San Bernardino Freeway in Rosemead.

A carbon dioxide leak in Terminal 8 of LAX caused four people to become ill early Monday morning. One of those people was in “grave condition.”

Firefighters are trying to determine if the restaurant fire is connected to 10 others. John Cadiz Klemack reports Oct. 26, 2022.