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City Council approves LAFD redeployment 12-2

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Los Angeles Fire Department Deployment Plan Approved

The following information was released by Los Angeles Fire Department Administration following a meeting of the Los Angeles City Council on May 18, 2011.

The LAFD Deployment Plan was approved today by a 12 to 2 vote [of the City Council] with two amending motions.

The first amending motion speaks to restoring funding to the department to re-open resources. Should labor make contract concessions, those funds will return directly to the Fire Department. Specifically 6.9 million dollars in anticipated concessions from labor negotiations will be placed in the unappropriated balance account.

The Department will use the same data analysis system that was used to create the deployment plan to determine what neighborhood services will be restored.

The second amending motion was designed to maintain the position authorities without the funding. 318 position authorities remain unfunded.

This means that any savings that are found within the budget will be used to restore neighborhood resources. Those resources will be determined by the Fire Chief.

July 5th [2011] remains the implementation date for the LAFD Deployment Plan. The MCP [Modified Coverage Plan] will remain in place until that date.

Special Duty sworn furloughs were approved.

"After several hours of debate, I’m pleased that the LAFD Deployment Plan proposed by Chief Peaks was approved by the Los Angeles City Council," said Councilmember Tony Cárdenas.

"I applaud his leadership and vision in the development of a Plan that will save the City more than $50 million a year while enhancing public safety for all of Los Angeles." said Councilmember Tony Cárdenas.

Los Angeles Fire Department Deployment Plan Approved

Mike "FossilMedic" Ward

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  • ukfbbuff

     As I read this,  the LAFD  Union/ Firefighters makes $6.9 million dollars in wage and benefit concessions, then it get’s to Re-Open Station the Chief determines he can based upon his Deployment Study, YET 318 (106 per day) vacancies remain unfilled.

      While it appears LAPD makes little in concessions and is still hiring as usual.

      Check out the respective LAFD/LAPD Recruitment websites.

       Fire Season is here, in California. its just getting started

  • Dalmatian90

    Could someone translate the LAFD Deployment Plan into plain language?  I’m pretty darn good at deciphering stuff usually, but this left me feeling like I needed a Scott Pack & BB Gun to get through the smoke and mirrors.

    The only thing I could take away was going from MCP to the new system the only significant change was going from 58 to 72 ALS Engines; everything else was just onesy twosy changes.

    Is it that they went from a lot more, down to the MCP, now with 318 less they’re going back up to a little bit more then the MCP had…but moving units around for station coverage more often?

  • http://www.firegeezer.com Mike “FossilMedic” Ward

    http://lafd.org/lafd-spotlight/136-spotlight-articles/administration/98-emergency-operations/418-fy2011-2012-resource-allocation

    228 fewer firefighters on the street every hour of every day

    Engine and paramedic in every fire station

    11 fewer engine companies
    07 fewer truck companies (“Light Force”  tiller + pumper)

    Elimination of variably-staffed rescue ambulances (in service less than 24 hours – most covered through overtime assignments)

    Elimination of 10 battalion aides (drivers)
    Two less battalions
    One less division