not sure about all of this
los angeles county FD and los angeles city fd have preplanned
procedures for handling very large fires
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LA County FD
pretty sure that the county FD operates like this - first alarm brush
- 5 engines plus 2 hand crews plus 1 dozer plus 2 or 3 copters - 1
engine goes to helispot to feed the helos - 2nd alarm brush - 5
engines plus 2 hand crews plus 2 copters plus 1 dozer - third alarm
brush - 5 engines plus 2 hand crews plus 1 dozer plus remaining helos
- moveups are done for each brush alarm
for more apparatus - we believe that they contact the OES fire
coordinator - and they send strike teams of five engines each - they
might come from in county or out of the county
note - in mutual threat zones / on the borders between 2 FD areas -
both agencies will typically send a full brush response on the first
alarm
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LA City FD
not exactly sure what the LA City response protocol is
first alarm brush - 5 engines and 1 ladder and 3 copters and 1 dozer
and maybe 2 mutual aid hand crews - beyond that they can ask for any
number of additional engines and resources - for the Palisades Fire
they asked for 40 extra engines within 10 minutes of the first
dispatch - the extra units are probably a mixture of LA City units and
suburban FDs and out of county FDs
LAFD probably had approx 120 engines on duty when the Palisades Fire
broke out - so sending 45 engines to the fire is nearly 50% of their
available engines - if they wanted to request 20 mutual aid engines -
maybe they could get 5 from Long Beach and 5 from County FD and 5 from
Verdugo Dispatch and 5 from Torrance area
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there might be 400 fire stations in Los Angeles County - if they had 3
engines at each station - then they could have 1,200 engines available
in the County at maximum staffing - in fact they should probably do
that - with 3 shifts on duty - they could staff all 3 engines - this
would help on brush fires and earthquakes and nuke bomb attacks
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