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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [2] [3] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
The Los Angeles Fire Department ( LAFD or LA City Fire) provides firefighting services as well as technical rescue services, hazardous materials services and emergency medical services to the citizens of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. [6] The LAFD is responsible for approximately four million people who live in the agency's ...
The Los Angeles County Fire Department ( LACoFD) provides firefighting and emergency medical services for the unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, California, [1] as well as 59 cities through contracting, including the city of La Habra, [4] which is located in Orange County and is the first city outside of Los Angeles County to contract ...
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department ( SDFD) is an all-risk, all-hazards fire department, providing fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of San Diego, California, United States. [2] The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department is the second-largest municipal fire department in the state of California, after Los Angeles.
Kenney was born in 1869 in San Francisco, California, one of 3 children. In 1871, his father, James J. Kenney, Sr., an Irish Australian immigrant, served for a year on the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and was also a fire commissioner there from 1871 to 1875. Kenney's mother, Nellie, was born in Massachusetts of ...
The Oakland Fire Department is the sponsoring agency of Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 4 (CA-TF4), one of eight FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces in the state of California and 28 nationally. [8] The task forces, which is made up of personnel from 15 different agencies in the Bay Area, provides resources to locate ...
Current fires in California have burned 687,191 acres so far, Cal Fire said. Nationwide 102 large active wildfires, the vast majority in the West , are blamed for charring more than 2 million ...
On June 25, 1996, the city council voted to name the library after Alma Reaves Woods, a woman in the community who encouraged reading and library usage. [68] James C. Moore, AIA & Associates designed the current Watts Library, which opened on June 29, 1996. [69] Los Angeles Public Library operates the Alma Reaves Woods–Watts Branch. [70]