Last week, #LACoFD FS 118 & 145 FFs participated alongside the CHP for the Every 15 Minutes Program at Rowland Heights HS.
This two-day program, challenges HS students to think about drinking & driving, safety, making mature decisions & the impact their decisions have on others.
2026 Explorer Disaster Drill🚒🔥
Today, 108 #LACoFD #Explorers received training on hose advancement, extinguishing fires, auto extrication, wildland fire tactics, rappelling, & exposure to HM & USAR equipment.
Thank you to the Disaster Drill Committee for a successful event.
It was a great morning spent with Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, TCEP90290, along with local communities and agencies for the Topanga Evacuation Drill.
Congrats to #LACoFD UCLA Paramedic Class 81!
Today, a graduation ceremony was held to honor participants who successfully completed the UCLA Paramedic Program, including four #LACoFD firefighters. 🚒
Adam Green
Kyle Harris
Joshua Jones
Braxton Smith
📸 Edith Lai, LACoFD PIA
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Learn more from LA County Public Health about prescribed fire and smoke safety:
🔗 publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/safety/pres…
Prescribed burns will appear in Watch Duty:
🔗app.watchduty.org
Note: Watch Duty is a third-party platform that has no affiliation to the LACoFD.
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A Prescribed Pile Burn is planned for Monday (4/20) in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Prescribed pile burns are effective tools in preventing large, destructive wildfires. These planned burns are carefully managed to reduce smoke impacts and improve wildland health.
Meet your #LACoFD 9-1-1 B-Platoon Day #Dispatchers. 📞🚒💛
#TelecommunicatorsWeek #Dispatch #911
Meet your #LACoFD 9-1-1 A-Platoon Day #Dispatchers. 📞🚒💛
Community 🚒
Kudos to our dedicated #LACoFD Bn 8 FFs for providing exceptional service through outreach & education efforts in the City of Whittier including a recent “Touch-a-Truck” event at the Whittwood Library & Read Across America Program at the Whittier Public Library.
🎧 Before the sirens, before the flashing lights, there is a calm voice holding everything together. 💛
During Telecommunicators Week, we recognize our @LACoFD911 dispatchers. They are the invisible lifelines, the steady ears working around the clock to keep our residents safe.
Two days. 117 firefighters trained.
Earlier this week Bn. 20 FFs came together at Inglewood High for hands-on training to sharpen their skills & strengthen teamwork.
A huge thanks to everyone who helped make this training possible—your commitment keeps our communities safe.
Animal companions are more than pets - they are family.🐾 💞
Today we celebrate our #LACoFD canine friends providing comfort, behavioral health support, and joy to our personnel and residents.
Happy National Pet Day and Dog Therapy Appreciation Day from your LACoFD.
📣 Postponed to Sunday, 5/3/26 📣
Due to the forecasted rain, the 4/11 5th annual A Special Day with First Responders Sirens of Silence event has been postponed to 5/3.
Join local first responders in a sensory sensitive environment to explore apparatus & build community.
🌊 5th Annual #LACoFD WLPA Registration is Open! 🌊
Get the skills & build the confidence to prepare you for a potential career as an ocean lifeguard!
* When: 5/30 & 5/31
* Where: Dockweiler Youth Center
Limited spots available—reserve yours today!
🔗bit.ly/LACOFD2026WLPA
LACoFD FS 171 (Inglewood) Pancake Breakfast 🚒🥞
Join the #LACoFD for a Community Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, 4/25, from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Fire Station 171 in the City of Inglewood.
All are welcome and we would love to see you there!
🚒🔥 2026 Fire Service Day Open House & Regional Fire Service Day Events 🚒🔥
We’re rolling up the doors and opening ALL #LACoFD fire stations to YOU on Saturday, 5/2/26. Come meet our team, tour the stations, & learn more about the vital work we do to keep the community safe.
On Friday, April 3, 2026, Deputy Fire Chief Mike Inman hung up his turnouts for the final time.
We thank Chief Inman for his many contributions & 40 years of dedicated service to the Department & #LACounty residents & communities.
Congrats on your well-deserved retirement!
The #LACoFD would like to wish everyone a “Hoppy” Easter! 🐇 🐣🐰
Congrats to the 66 participants who successfully completed the 10th Annual #LACoFD Women’s Fire Prep Academy today.
The LACoFD & WFL extends its heartfelt gratitude to the ODEI team, instructor cadre, Explorers & alumni for supporting the participants over the past 6 Saturdays.
Thank you to FF Ruben Ortiz II, Local 1014 & Benefit & Welfare for making this year’s #LACoFD Bear Classic tournament possible. 🥎🧢🐻🚒
It was a great day for camaraderie, strengthening bonds on and off the field!
Congrats to this year’s tournament champions - FS 36! 🏆
4/4 #CrownFire Update 🚒🔥
Current Acreage: 345 Acres
Containment: 95%
Crews are continuing to work through the night and into tomorrow.
📸 Doug Morrison, LACoFD Photographer
⚠️Major Incident Update ⚠️
#CrownFire 🚒🔥
Current Acreage: 280 Acres
Containment: 25%
Forward progress has been stopped.
Please continue to monitor the platforms below for updates:
🔗 lacounty.gov/emergency
🔗 protect.genasys.com
📸 @alewisphoto72 (IG)
#CrownFire 🚒🔥
#LACoFD FFs are on scene of a 2nd Alarm Brush Fire in #Acton. The fire is currently at 280 acres.
Evacuation orders & warnings have been issued. Visit protect.genasys.com to check the status of your area.
Please monitor lacounty.gov/emergency for updates.
Join the #LACoFD on April 11, 2026, for the fifth annual A Special Day with First Responders Sirens of Silence event.
Join local first responders in a sensory sensitive environment to explore apparatus and build community.
On 3/30, the #LACoFD conducted a prescribed pile burn in the Tonner Canyon area in Diamond Bar. Strategic fuel reduction is an essential tool for the prevention of catastrophic wildfires. These planned burns are carefully managed to reduce smoke impacts & improve wildland health.
Today marks the 1-year anniversary of the #LACoFD LA-DROP program, w/whole blood available in the field for FFPMs to use on critically ill trauma patients.
LA-DROP is the #LACounty collaborative & CAL-DROP the 5-County collaborative. To date, LA-DROP has transfused 57 patients.
Congrats to our newly promoted #LACoFD battalion chiefs effective today, 4/1/26:
🚒 Donald Bailey
🚒 Jason Centeno
🚒 Hugo Cortez
🚒 David Dantic
🚒 Daniel Garcia
🚒 Matthew Kaller-Vincent
🚒 Richard Licon
🚒 John McClaskey
🚒 Mark McCurdy
🚒 Kelvin Patterson, Jr.
#AutismAcceptanceMonth❤️🩵💛♾️
The #LACoFD #SirensOfSilence program provides FFs training on how best to communicate w/people on the autism spectrum & also allows people on the spectrum to interact w/first responders in sensory-sensitive spaces.
🔗 fire.lacounty.gov/sirens-of-si...
This past Sunday at #LACoFD FS 7 in West Hollywood, units from the LACoFD, LAFD & Beverly Hills Fire Department took part in an interagency #MayDay training drill.
In the #WestHollywood area, our agencies work together daily. Training together keeps us ready when we’re called to action.
As we close out Women’s History Month, we proudly celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the #LACoFD Women’s Fire Prep Academy.
You Better Keep Up!
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