The tax proposed by the United Firefighters of Los Angeles could fund fire apparatus, 30 fire stations and added staffing.

The president of the L.A. Fire Departments labor union, Freddy Escobar, long a critic of what he called an insufficient fire department budget and two other people have been suspended after an L.A.

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) suspended three top officers of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City (UFLAC), the city fire department's labor union, after an audit ...

Freddy Escobar was suspended as president of the union that represents Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Freddy Escobar stood on the sidewalk outside his ...

Freddy Escobar stood on the sidewalk outside his former workplace waving a green thumb drive and a stack of papers that he said would clear his name. The suspended president of the United Firefighters ...

LOS ANGELES — Top officials at the Los Angeles firefighters labor union were suspended Monday after an audit conducted by its parent organization found over $800,000 in credit card spending, some of ...

LOS ANGELES — The president and two other top officers of the Los Angeles Fire Department's labor union were suspended from their posts Monday after an investigation by the union's parent organization ...