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Fire departments in Los Angeles and Orange counties were quite busy on July Fourth, with L.A. County Fire receiving fourteen times more fire-related calls than on a normal day in June.of the Rancho Fire that burned near homes in Laguna Beach on Monday, but that was just one of the fireworks-related fires in recent days.
The Orange County, L.A. County, and L.A. city fire departments all saw huge upticks in fires on the notoriously busy Fourth of July holiday. “We’re double-digit busier than we typically are handling fire-type calls and injury-type calls related to fireworks than on any other day,” said Brian Humphrey, a spokesperson for the L.A. Fire Department.L.A. County Fire responded to 333 fires on July 4th this year — compared with 255 last year and 197 the year before that, according to Capt. Sheila Kelliher Berkoh. For comparison, a few Fridays ago on June 13, they responded to 23. The Orange County Fire Authority responded to 51 fire calls. On average, they respond to about seven fire-related incidents a day, said Capt. Greg Barta, a department spokesperson.For instance, Humphrey said that the LAFD responded to 181 rubbish fires, a category that includes fireworks-related incidents and fires at homeless encampments.
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