Los Angeles County Fire Dept

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Chief, as I recall, Take an incident in Battalion 7 (South LA): would receive the appropriate 1st-in, 2nd in units, with move-ups commencing mere minutes later, when a working fire was declared. Nearer units responded on the 2nd, and a move-up map would resemble a sinkhole (the incident) sucking additional rigs and subsequent move-ups from all directions.



Since 3-4-5th alarm move-ups usually had to come from other battalions some considerably distant, the "Code R" moveups, using freeways, accomplished the coverage in shorter time. There were coverage gaps as this process evolved, inevitably . And it's a biig county. Some rigs surplussed out recently had well over 140,000 miles on the clock, a lot of move-up miles in that number.



HTH