By Sid Garcia
KABC
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — L.A.'s fire chief dropped a controversial cost-cutting plan to reassign firefighters from fire trucks to ambulances.
After being praised for the heroic work his firefighters did on a recent apartment complex fire, L.A. City Fire Chief Brian Cummings took a lot of heat for his realignment plan to remove one firefighter from a six-person truck and put them in an ambulance. That plan went into effect on Sunday.
After just two days it’s been scrapped, at least for now. The L.A. City Council agreed to give the fire department $1.5 million to fully staff the trucks and to put an extra 11 ambulances into service through the end of June.
Full story: City firefighters ambulance plan scrapped after 2 days, budget allotment
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