One solution related to housing costs, would be for the fire department to own housing, and rent that housing to employees at a discounted rate, so they can afford to live in L.A.
I don’t know if there are tax implications with that, in that, discouted rent would be like additional income. But if this problem is that severe, LA needs to do something like this, if they want to ensure their firemen actually live in LA when off the clock.
It’s no different than police, librarians, store clerks, school teachers, car mechanics, water department workers, high school baseball coaches, etc. You can’t run a town or city without normal people doing the needed real work and it is increasingly hard for normal people to live anywhere near big Democrat cities. Two incomes are required which means the kids are under the “care” of big Democrat Education, i.e., leftist indoctrination.