Los Angeles mayor orders fire chief to release emergency response details

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stamped out the Los Angeles Fire Department’s policy of withholding basic emergency response details.

The mayor acted after the city council criticized a new policy reversing the practice of providing rescue response details including the times, locations and type of emergency and age and gender of victims. -db

From the Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2012, by Kate Linthicum and Robert J. Lopez.

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