MacArthur Park is burning — and Station 11 is the crew stuck holding the line.
According to a New York Post report, one of Los Angeles’ oldest firehouses is being dragged into the fentanyl war, spread thin as it struggles to respond to ODs and rush calls in MacArthur Park.
From The New York Post:
Los Angeles Fire Department’s Station 11 keeps a whopping 14 firefighters on duty daily, often bumped to 16 to staff an ambulance and a fast-response truck loaded with paramedics. The pace at which the firehouse must keep up with calls is almost incomprehensible.
Station 11 has been crushed under an extreme medical load: 8,568 ambulance runs compared to just 55 structure fires in the first eight months of 2025, according to records reviewed by The Post. These numbers make the firehouse among the busiest in the country.
MacArthur Park extinguishes “rubbish” fires — almost always started by the homeless — at a breakneck pace, forcing crews to douse one fire and race straight to the next, a member of the LAFD told The Post.
MacArthur Park has established itself as a destination for LA’s hardest drug addicts — a chaos-soaked corridor where overdoses hit by the hour and crime crews muscle in on the trade.
The district’s largest green space has mutated into a sprawling encampment, with hundreds of people in and around the park on any given day.
When The Post walked the park Friday and again on Monday young users, many appearing to be in their 20s, shot up with needles or smoked from glass pipes. Some pipes were fashioned to look like shotguns. Other addicts were passed out, or simply waiting on their next free meal.
The Post also witnessed straight-barrel versions of crack pipes getting handed out in “safe smoking” kits by city and county-backed programs.
More over at The New York Post:
Fentanyl-fueled park turns LA’s oldest firehouse into drug overdose command post https://t.co/zx0719JXup pic.twitter.com/ENuyas6kdP
— New York Post (@nypost) December 9, 2025
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