Lobbying for LAFD changes

With the City Council scheduled to vote Wednesday on Los Angeles' $6.9 billion budget plan, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Fire Department are pushing hard for passage of a controversial deployment plan that could save an estimated $54 million. Daily News.

Fire Chief Millage Peaks has been meeting with individual council members to lobby for the staffing plan, which he says would restore some of the cuts made under a previous money-saving deployment schedule.

"Right now, we have 22 fire resources out of service under the modified deployment plan," Peaks said in a round-table discussion arranged by Councilman