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The Fleet Services Division was created in 1986 when the Department assumed full administrative, repair and maintenance responsibly for its emergency apparatus and support vehicle fleet. The Division was established to more efficiently and effectively manage the Department’s fleet objectives and provide more flexibility and responsiveness to changes in emergency priorities. Fleet Services is comprised of the Administrative, Field Repair and Fire Shops Sections. The Division’s mission is to ensure a safe, highly functional fleet of emergency apparatus and support vehicles by providing well designed equipment and prompt, skillful fleet maintenance.

ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION

The Fleet Services Division Chief reports to the Deputy Chief of the Support Services Bureau. The Division Chief is responsible for providing technical and administrative supervision of inspections, preventative maintenance and repair of the Department’s entire automotive and marine firefighting apparatus and support vehicles. The Division Chief chairs the Apparatus Committee and is responsible for the specifications, procurement, inspection assignment and disposal of all automotive and marine firefighting apparatus, and the preparation of the vehicle replacement, repair and maintenance budget. The Fleet Services Assistant Chiefs report to the Division Chief and are responsible for managing the operations and activities of the Field Repair and Fire Shop Sections and the Radio Installation and Welder/Fabricator Units.

FIELD REPAIR SECTION

The Field Repair Section is responsible for performing safety inspections and all light-duty routine or emergency repairs in the field. The mobile field repair mechanics primarily perform their duties in fire stations or emergency incidents, thereby eliminating the need to remove the vehicle from service. The Section employs at least one field mechanic on standby duty at all times for emergency repairs. This Section is supported by the mobile Welder/Fabricator Unit.

FIRE SHOP SECTION

The Fire Shop Section’s central shop in located near Department headquarters in East Los Angeles; a satellite shop is located in the City of Lancaster. The Fire Shop Section is responsible for major annual apparatus inspections, heavy-duty repairs of all types, major vehicle retro-fits and refurbishing, new support vehicle and emergency apparatus outfitting and the communications equipment Radio Installation Unit. The Welder/Fabricator Unit is also located in the East Los Angeles Fire Shop.