By Ben Welsh
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Two key reform efforts intended to address the Los Angeles Fire Department’s diminished resources and faulty performance tracking are being delayed, agency officials said Tuesday.
Chief Brian Cummings told the city Fire Commission that he is pulling back an ambitious plan requested by the City Council that would boost the department’s ranks and speed up lagging 911 response times. In addition, one influential member of the panel announced that a push to overhaul the department’s much-criticized data analysis has fallen behind schedule and will miss an April deadline for completion of reforms.
The department has been under increased scrutiny since last March, when fire officials admitted they had published response times that made it appear rescuers arrived at emergencies faster than they actually did.
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