LAFD handling cuts

The Los Angeles Fire Department experienced an increase in workloads but no major emergencies during its first week of money-saving service "brownouts," officials said Monday.

Deputy Chiefs Emilio Mack and Leonard Thompson told the City Council's Public Safety Committee that the brownouts have taken 87 firefighters out of the daily work rotation. However, there still are 1,000 firefighters on duty at all times, so there has been little impact on service.