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But when county leaders repeatedly approved far smaller vehicle budgets than the department requested, sheriff’s officials chose to spend that money on other needs — such as patrol cars and specialized transport vans.

Deputies are still able to respond to calls, though they can’t run license plates or background checks from their patrol cars.

A few of the station’s patrol cars had already been sent to help battle the blazes in Malibu, leaving just a skeleton crew in Altadena.

Parents reported seeing two school police patrol cars in the area the next morning.

On Altadena Drive near Altadena Community Church, a sheriff’s deputy sat in a patrol car to keep drivers away from a downed power line.