PUBLIC SECTOR STORIES: Mission Creep at the L.A. Fire Department: The LAFD has become a huge mobile health clinic. And that’s simply unsustainable. “LAFD gets absurd requests — like help finding the lost remote control. And it gets hundreds of calls, every single day, just for a lift to the hospital. Almost unnoticed, these often lower-level calls now all but define LAFD’s reason for being.”