La Tuna Canyon Fire & Rescue

01/08/2026

We have an incoming Santa Ana wind event. Fire risk would be marginal if any with the recent rains. See details from NWS below. Downed trees, power lines and power outages may be possible - stay vigilant! If you see downed wires please call 911! For downed treess you can reach LA city's 311 service below:

Dial 311 or (213) 473-3231
https://lacity.gov/directory/311-call-center

Strong northerly winds will develop tonight, transitioning into a Santa Ana wind event Fri into at least Sat. High Wind Warnings and Wind Advisories have been issued.

There is a HIGH risk for downed trees and power outages due to softened soils from recent soaking rains.

01/06/2026

Update to previous post - Rescinding Transition to SCWR.

After careful consideration early on, we have decided to not merge with SCWR and retain La Tuna Canyon Fire & Rescue. We will also retain our Brush Truck dedicated to La Tuna Canyon. This will allow us to continue to have dedicated resources locally in our canyon to assist allied agencies as well as self support our community as La Tuna Canyon Fire & Rescue

Our mission is to serve our community and residents - and this will be best done within our own agency. Website and Phone number will re-activate within the next week more posts will follow regularly for updates, engagements, and news! Stay Tuned!

-Michael Mason | Fire Chief

09/12/2024

We are conducting a windshield survey of La Tuna Canyon and surrounding areas. No damage to report so far and will update only if conditions change.

08/27/2024

Please help us replace a skid unit that failed on our brush truck, unfortunately it was a total loss and will need to be replaced! Any help is greatly appreciated!

02/21/2024

Our phone system was down through the night from 1am-7am. Everything is now operational again. Apologies to those who called and couldn’t reach us in those hours. We are reaching out to those who called to follow up.

02/26/2023

Canyon Update: Per City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services The canyon will be opening today but no exact time has been given yet.

02/26/2023

At approximately 12:15 AM on early Saturday morning, Calls went out for Wires Down within our canyon. About an hour before this, Los Angeles Fire Department had all resources assigned out and response times were significantly increased. While on our way to assist this incident, we noticed flash flooding had already occurred and stopped to assist traffic until LAPD Headquarters OVB came to assist. Once we were able to leave that scene, we sized up the rest of the canyon (We ensured no structures were damaged or lives in danger) and immediately ordered the canyon shut down due to several rock slides and a few land slides and flash flooding that was actively occurring making the road dangerous to travel on. City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services came to close the canyon down right below the 210 freeway and at the 9100 block.

Before the closure there was over 5 inches of rain that had fallen and rainfall rates were about 1.5 inches per hour, which triggered the Fond Fire burn scar and previous La Tuna Fire burn scars to flood out with land and rock slides which were already completely saturated.

By 8:30 AM, Street Services had reinforced the closure with proper signage and the canyon is still closed. We will advise everyone when the ETA is for reopening, but they are currently cleaning the canyon.

Thank you to LAPD Headquarters and City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services for assisting!!

01/10/2023

You never know what you may find while out on an incident! Upon doing routine storm patrol our we provided assistance to a motorist who was uninjured in a solo traffic collision and cleared two very minor rock slides within close proximity that were posing a hazard in the eastbound lanes within that same hour keeping our communities safe.

At this time La Tuna Canyon is open. Photos during & After cleanup. Some rocks were about 18" that were cleared off the road.

12/10/2022

We will be expecting a significant storm and heaviest rainfall is expected in the early morning hours Sunday. Current estimates are over an inch of rain and possibly more.

Los Angeles County Department of Public Works has forecasted a Phase 2 debris flow, indicating expected moderate debris flow. In the video below, we discuss this rain event and where the debris flow is expected as outlined by the County's website.

We will have equipment pre-positioned and will be actively monitoring this event for the duration of the rain fall.

Los Angeles County Debris Flow Assessment Information
https://dpw.lacounty.gov/wrd/forecast/

Informational Video discussing this event
https://youtu.be/QZ2QaFerRao

This video discusses the upcoming rainfall, and anticipated debris flow as forecasted by Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. We discuss and show v...

11/13/2022

We will be having a moderate to strong Santa Ana event Tuesday into Thursday. Please see details from the NWS. We will have fire patrols going 24x7 and our type 6 will be fully staffed, mobilized and ready to respond. Be ready and have a plan in the event wildfire occurs.

www.readyforwildfire.org

“Wind will be the main weather story for the next few days. Tonight-Sun: - Gusty N winds (35-50 MPH) across southern SBA county and the I-5 Corridor Tue-Thu: - Potential moderate to strong - Widespread critical conditions possible ”

11/09/2022

Today at approximately 3PM heavy rain cells moved through our area and we responded to assess the roads for potential debris and rocks. Rainfall rates were at 1 inch per hour for a while. Fortunately no major issues to report however a downed limb from a tree on Del Arroyo was previously cleared but was still partially blocking the road. We cut the tree and moved it entirely out of the road. In addition several smaller branches and objects in our roadway were removed. Picture of tree while in progress of cutting it up. Keeping our residents and community safe!