As a result, if you just compare the LAFD’s budget last year to this year’s, it looks like it went down $23M. But that’s because when the budget was adopted last May or June, the city was ...

These fires come six months after Los Angeles slashed the LAFD's budget in fiscal year 2025. The LAFD budget decreased by more than $17 million from 2024 to 2025, according to the LA City Controller.

LAFD officials say they need at least a 7% budget increase in the upcoming fiscal year to invest in 400 more firefighters and open 62 new fire stations within the next six years.

An LAFD role could be nixed amid budget woes. Fire engines outside Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital in 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) By Noah Goldberg. Staff Writer Follow.

Critics on social media have alleged that Mayor Karen Bass cut the city fire department’s budget by $23 million this year.