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While the year hasn't finished yet and our Department is still crunching the numbers, it looks like the trend will continue with our Los Angeles City Firefighters responding to more emergency calls for service in 2017 than we have in any single year since the LAFD became a professional fire department in 1886.
Over the past five years, LAFD Firefighters have responded to an enormous number of emergency calls for service - and our demand continues to grow each year.
2013: 404,000 calls
2014: 414,000 calls
2015: 460,000 calls
2016: 481,000 calls
In 2017, this number is going to be even higher.
Even as we battle nearly a half million emergency calls for service each year right here in the City of Los Angeles, our Firefighters have also been dispatched to provide Mutual Aid and Urban Search & Rescue efforts in Florida and Texas.
Right now, our brothers and sisters with the LAFD are helping fight the Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. This catastrophic blaze, which is still destroying property and threatening lives, has already been declared the second largest fire in the history of California.
Tragically, one of our brothers from Cal Fire, Cory Iverson, paid the ultimate sacrifice in a Line of Duty Death while battling the Thomas Fire, leaving behind his pregnant wife, Ashley, and their 2-year old daughter, Evie.
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