Nearly a year after CBS Los Angeles exposed equipment problems that plagued Los Angeles firefighters during the Palisades Fire fight, another major concern has allegedly been found at the Port of Los Angeles.

Steve Meiche says that there are currently five fireboats that safeguard the port, but they're in such poor condition that if a fire similar to the one that ravaged a wooden wharf in 2014 breaks out, it could turn into a catastrophe.

He was one of the first Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters in the water that day, working as a rescue diver.

"I was on that fire for three days," Meiche said. "One of the most dangerous operations I've ever encountered."

Now, 11 years later, he says that Los Angeles is just one spark away from another similar disaster at the port. He says th

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