The Latest Breaking News from Los Angeles Fire Department

LOS ANGELES — Seventeen cats were killed in a large fire that broke out early Saturday morning at a strip mall in Palms with a boarding hotel for pets, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

LOS ANGELES — New audio files from the Los Angeles Fire Department reveal that actor Anne Heche was trapped in her car for nearly an hour before being rescued at the scene of the fiery crash that led to her death last month.

Her car came to a stop inside the two-story house and started a fire that took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to douse, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

US actress Anne Heche has been hospitalized in critical condition after crashing her car into a Los Angeles home, US media reported Friday. The Los Angeles Fire Department reported that a vehicle struck a two-story house in Los Angeles' Mar Vista neighborhood, "causing structural compromise and erupting in heavy fire."…

Two people are confirmed to have been killed after gunmen in body armour opened fire at a car show in Peck Park, San Pedro, Los Angeles, injuring as many as seven people with the full extent of the horror yet to be revealed

At least seven people were injured after gunfire erupted Sunday afternoon at or near a car show in San Pedro's Peck Park, authorities said.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Fire Department has launched an investigation into a video posted on social media that shows firefighters punching and kicking a man outside Station 6 in Silver Lake on Friday.

LOS ANGELES — Last spring, a high-ranking official in the Los Angeles Fire Department alleged that its top administrative commander, Chief Deputy Fred Mathis, appeared to be intoxicated while he was overseeing the agency's operations center during the Palisades fire.