San Jose, Oakland fire departments understaffed like L.A.
We are severely understaffed,” said Jerry May, president of San Jose Firefighters Local 230 Union and a San Jose Fire ...
Crashes and Disasters
The Los Angeles Fire Department has less than one firefighter for every 1,000 residents, with a staffing rate of 0.90, a Bay ...
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Some Major California Fire Departments Are Understaffed
In the Bay Area, two of the largest city fire departments are stretched, raising questions about their ability to protect ...
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Like Los Angeles, San Jose and Oakland Need Firefighters
The rate at the Oakland Fire Department is 1.07 ... 1.36 at Alameda and 0.65 at Contra Costa. California also has fewer volunteer firefighters, who make up a larger share of personnel in other ...
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This economist survived a wildfire. Now she's taking on California's insurance crisis
An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.
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Insurance and wildfires
For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...
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Two Oakland, CA, Fire Stations to Close, Others to be Browned Out
Oakland's fire chief said the temporary closure of two fire stations and using brownouts at other fire stations will help the city make up for a $130M deficit. Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington ...
How wildfire investigators painstakingly comb through evidence to learn how a blaze began
It’s going to be long, arduous and there’s going to be hundreds of hours,” a retired fire captain said of probes into how the ...