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LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 9, 2024 - - Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics with Los Angeles Fire Station 11 work to revive a man who overdosed at the corner of S. Alvarado and Wilshire Blvd. In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on October 9, 2024. The EMT's were able to revive the man with narcan, used in fentanyl overdoses, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. Station 11 is constantly called on to handle drug overdoses and other non-fire emergencies. (Photography by Genaro Molina) FYI EDITOR: STEVE LOPEZ SPOKE WITH HIS EDITORS ABOUT THIS SITUATION. WE WERE ON OUR OWN AND COULD ONLY ILLUSTRATE THE STORY BY CHASING AMBULANCES AND FIRETRUCKS FROM STATION 11 IN MACARTHUR PARK. THE JIST OF THIS STORY IS THAT FIREFIGHTERS ARE WORKING ON OVERDOSE/MEDICAL SITUATIONS MORE THAN COVERING FIRES.

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Coachella, California October 12, 2024-Presidential candidate Donald Trump greets his supporters during a rally at Calhoun Ranch in Coachella Saturday.(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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MESA, AZ - OCTOBER 1, 2024: Competing political signs depict differing views in the same household on the lawn in front of a home in this suburban neighborhood on October 1, 2024 in Mesa, Arizona. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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WASHINGTON D.C. - SEPTEMBER 27: Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was called back to testify about claims by Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images)

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Imperial Valley, CA - September 24: Mark McBroom, owner of Bloom to Box Crop Care, and a farmer in the Imperial Valley, walks across a water flow gate next to his alfalfa fields he has left dry near Calipatria. He and other farmers have been temporarily leaving hay fields dry as part of a federally funded program that is securing water to boost reservoir levels on the Colorado River. The Imperial Irrigation District has been locking canal gates in recent weeks so that no water can be delivered where farmers have agreed to participate. Photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. Many Imperial Valley farmers are voluntarily participating in a multimillion dollar Colorado River deal in which the federal government that is paying farmers in the Imperial Valley to leave their hay fields dry during part of the year in exchange for payments. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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