Los Angeles fire and elected officials will gather at Dodger Stadium Wednesday to celebrate the recent restoration of engine companies at four stations across the city, bolstering Fire Department fleet just in time for the peak of brush-fire season.
The new engines were made possible in part by a $15.4 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant received last year, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The engines went into service July 8 and have already seen action at the recent Griffith Park brush fire, a major emergency commercial fire in Northridge and smaller grass fires in the Elysian Park and Lincoln Heights neighborhoods.
Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas will join Mayor Eric Garcetti, some City Council members and officials from firefighters’ labor organizations at a news conference at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Dodger Stadium to discuss the new engines and how they will impact operations.
The engines were assigned to stations in Reseda, Echo Park, Mission Hills and Lincoln Heights. The engines mark a restoration of some of the service that was cut from the LAFD in 2011 amid the recession.