N15LA pictured here during a training session dropping and picking up rescue swimmers over Castaic Lake north of LA, is the 3rd S-70A Firehawk the LA County FD took on strength in January 2005. The other two are N160LA and N190LA. Two S-70i Firehawks were added in 2018 and registered N821LA and N822LA respectively, bringing the total S-70 LACFD fleet to five. The LA County FD plans to replace the three older S-70A with two new S-70i's in the near future. Registration N15LA was previously assigned to another LAFCD helicopter, a Bell 205A-1.

This airframe was the 2nd S-70A "Firehawk" purchased new by the LACoFD in 2001. It returns here at 8am from a 24 hour shift it spent on Helipad "Bravo 69", which is located closer to a possible bush fire than Barton heliport, cutting down the response time if need be. Each day around 10am, another S-70 heads out to Bravo 69, while the previous ship undergoes maintenance at Barton, HQ of LACoFD's aviation branch.

The early morning dense fog has lifted and made the way free for Firehawk 'Copter 16'.

The Firehawk on display at Los Alamitos AAF.

Built in 2001, this airframe is the first of a total of five Firehawks operated by the Los Angeles County Fire Department Air Operations out of Barton Heliport, adjacent to the northeast of Whiteman Airport (IATA: WHP; ICAO: KWHP).