I asked this before and my post seems to have been deleted, what else is new.
Anyways, I was wondering does LACoFD work strictly in area outside the city limits and cover all area out side city limits with in the County?
LACoFD Station list with mapThe County of Los Angeles is over 4,000 square miles, with LACoFD responsible for around 2300 square miles of that territory. Compare that to LAFD's jurisdiction (which includes the city of San Fernando) which is just 471 square miles and you can see how vast the County of Los Angeles is. Because of the diversity that makes up Los Angeles and Southern California, it isn't just so cut and dry as to say the County handles the area outside the city limits like it would in other areas. Instead, the Consolidated Fire Protection District of Los Angeles County, which is LACoFD's *actual* name, covers all of the State Responsibility Area (SRA) land, the unincorporated parts of the county, and contracts with 60 local cities and communities to provide Fire, EMS, Air and Wildland services. And not just in LA County either!! LACoFD has recently been contracted to provide full services to the Orange County city of La Habra, much to the dismay of some OC board of supervisors. Because they are a Fire protection district and not a county fire dept, they are able to provide services beyond typical borders.
As you can see from the map above, LA City is not a traditional city with traditional borders. Throughout its history it has incorporated into the city various smaller areas, communities and full fledged cities, such as San Pedro, Hollywood, and Harbor city. Because of this, within LA Cities borders and all around it, are various other cities and communities. Many of those non-LA City communites and cities have decided to contract with the County due to the high level of services offered at a great reduction of cost compared to other options. This means that pockets like West hollywood are County, yet Hollywood is City. Universal Studios, Marina Del Rey, Chatsworth Lake Manor and other places are County jurisdiction but are surrounded by LA City.
Here is the latest list of the Cities served:
Agoura Hills, Artesia, Avalon, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Bell, Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Bradbury, Calabasas, Carson, Cerritos, Claremont, Commerce, Covina, Cudahy, Diamond Bar, Duarte, El Monte , Gardena, Glendora, Hawaiian Gardens, Hawthorne, Hidden Hills, Huntington Park, Industry, Inglewood , Irwindale, La Cañada Flintridge, La Habra, La Mirada, La Puente, Lakewood, Lancaster, Lawndale, Lomita, Lynwood, Malibu, Maywood, Norwalk , Palmdale, Palos Verdes Estates, Paramount, Pico Rivera, Pomona , Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Rosemead, San Dimas, Santa Clarita , Signal Hill, South El Monte, South Gate, Temple City, Walnut, West Hollywood, Westlake Village, Whittier
In addition to all of those, we also have the unincorporated areas of:
Acton, Agoura, Agua Dulce, Alondra Park, Altadena, Antelope Acres, Athens, Avocado Heights, Baldwin Hills, Bassett, Big Mountain Ridge, Big Pines, Big Rock, Bouquet Canyon, Castaic, Castaic Junction, Charter Oak, Chatsworth Lake Manor, Citrus, Cornell, Del Aire, Del Sur, Del Valle, Desert View Highlands, East Compton, East La Mirada, East Los Angeles, East Pasadena, East San Gabriel, Florence-Graham, Gorman, Green Valley, Hacienda Heights, Juniper Hills, Kinneloa Mesa, La Crescenta-Montrose, Ladera Heights, Lake Hughes, Lake Los Angeles, Lennox, Leona Valley, Littlerock, Llano, Marina del Rey, Mayflower Village, North El Monte, Pearblossom, Quartz Hill, Rancho Dominguez, Rowland Heights, South San Gabriel, South San Jose Hills, South Whittier, Stevenson Ranch, Topanga, Universal City, Val Verde, Valinda, Valyermo, View Park-Windsor Hills, Vincent, Walnut Park, West Athens, West Carson, West Compton, West Puente Valley, West Whittier-Los Nietos, Westmont, Willowbrook
Lots of areas, like Compton and Pasadena have their own fire departments, yet also have small areas which are served by LACoFD. The City of San Fernando is another special case with both LA City serving it and LACoFD FS 74.
In other words, you just can't pigeon hole county responses in any fashion. LACoFD responds into the city mutual aid in areas such as Chatsworth, Hollywood, Marina Del Rey, Venice, and many others. They also respond into the city, along with the ANF, for all Wildland incidents since we have the hand crews and additional air assets that the city doesn't. And by mutual aid, I don't mean as an additional request, but as part of the first alarm assignment. FS8 in west hollywood responds into beverly hills and hollywood (LA City) on most structure fires, and in many areas, the freeway responses will get both a County and a City response so that both directions of the freeway are covered.
Think of it like a quilt with different patches, all throughout are city, county, and other fire depts and after many years of lessons learned, trial and error, and proper planning, the citizens get the best service possible even if a weird looking vehicle shows up and the guys have patches that they might not have expected. Heck, a typical fire call in County 75s area gets a full alarm response from the County, City, and Ventura County Fire! 3 different agencies, 3 different patches, first come first serve. But in that area, they don't have "small" calls. When a fire breaks there, its either a large mansion or a canyon that'll burn for weeks straight to the ocean. The Sesnon, Topanga, and many others all started there and burnt straight to malibu. Thankfully, due to the efforts of the men at 75s, there have been thousands of other fires that were handled quickly and efficiently and never got a chance to make the news or get a name in the history books.
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