During Escobar's tenure, L.A. firefighters have weathered some tough times: COVID. The Palisades inferno. Fewer fire stations ...

Following one of the most destructive wildfires in LA’s history, Mayor Karen Bass removed Fire Chief Kristin on February ...

“You all tell us how much you support firefighters, how much you love labor,” Freddy Escobar, president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, the union representing the rank-and-file, pointedly ...

UFLAC President Freddy Escobar, who is also president of the foundation, declined to be interviewed or to answer a series of written questions from The Times, including about the IAFF review of ...

A City Council committee Friday weighed-in on potential funding measures to support the Los Angeles Fire Department, which ...

UFLAC President Freddy Escobar declined to comment on the allegations against Albarran and did not answer a written question from The Times about the IAFF financial review. UFLAC is a political ...

Freddy Escobar, 55, visits Station 26, where he once worked. The head of the L.A. firefighters union has seen his name recognition increase after the Palisades fire. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles ...

With piercing brown eyes, a biker mustache, a gravelly voice and the build of an NFL defensive end, Freddy Escobar has long cut an imposing figure in Los Angeles' political conflagrations as head ...