The Los Angeles City Council rejected former Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley’s appeal on Tuesday to ...

Crowley has been with the LAFD for about 25 years, working her way up through the ranks of the department as a firefighter, paramedic, engineer, fire inspector, captain, battalion chief ...

Kristin Crowley was appointed in 2022 by then Mayor Eric Garcetti as LAFD’s first female and openly LGBTQ fire chief. LAFD ...

Union firefighters, Los Angeles Women in Fire and Equity on Fire support ousted Fire Chief Kristin Crowley. believing she should lead.

That average response time from that station for both EMS calls and calls to a structure ... So it is not acceptable," said Battalion Chief Eric Roberts in LAFD's Planning Department.

The LAFD Administration issued the following statement ... average longer than eight minutes for structure fires and EMS calls. That's double the national standard of four minutes.