City probe of LAFD hiring controversy

By Ben Welsh

The Los Angeles Fire De­part­ment needs new rules to pre­vent con­flicts of in­terest and re­form a fire­fight­er hir­ing pro­cess “tain­ted” by con­cerns of nepot­ism, ac­cord­ing to a study by the de­part­ment’s top watch­dog re­leased Thursday.

Sources: Los Angeles Fire Commission