Los Angeles needs to fireproof communities, not just houses
After the devastation of the Los Angeles fires, officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires thinking about more than buildings.
How the Los Angeles Fires Compare to Historic Wildfires
T housands of personnel—firefighters, first responders, and the National Guard—have turned their attention towards stifling the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires, some of the worst California has ever seen.
What Trump can (and can’t) do to disrupt Los Angeles wildfire aid
It will be hard for President Trump to revoke FEMA funding — but a GOP-led Congress could slow down recovery in Los Angeles.
Climate change made the Los Angeles wildfires more likely
Climate change helped to set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles fires this month, a new study by 32 researchers shows. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January and soon killed at least 28 people,
Wider LA areas will be ‘more flammable’ due to climate change, study finds
Climate change caused primarily by fossil fuel burning had increased the likelihood of the California fires, scientists say
Here's how climate change fueled the Los Angeles fires
Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out how climate change played a role in the disaster.
Study says climate change made conditions that fed Los Angeles wildfires more likely, more intense
A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.
Climate change made ferocious LA wildfires more likely: study
Human-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the dangerous overlap between flammable drought conditions
What Los Angeles fire victims can expect from their insurance adjuster
A public insurance adjuster may help negotiate a better insurance payout for residents who lost their homes in the Los ...
His town burned in California’s most destructive fire. This is his advice for rebuilding in L.A.
The former mayor of the town at the center of California's deadliest wildfire encouraged L.A. to get its churches, schools ...
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Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno
The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...
‘You will get there’: Camp Fire survivors offer advice for Los Angeles County
Paradise Mayor Steve Crowder is in contact with officials in Southern California to share insights on recovery efforts ...
Edison denied causing destructive 2017 fire. Feds now believe utility suppressed evidence
Southern California Edison claims there were no electrical anomalies on its transmission lines in Eaton Canyon leading up to ...
Video of sparks points to Eaton Fire’s origins, lawsuit says
A video released as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Southern California Edison, the electrical utility for Los Angeles, ...
Search underway after inmate walks away from Acton Conservation Camp
Authorities are searching for an inmate who they say walked away from the Acton Conservation Camp on Tuesday evening. At around 9:15 p.m, they realized that Jessie Meza, 38, was missing during a head ...
Inmate from Kern County walks away from CDCR camp in Los Angeles County
CDCR officials are searching for an inmate who walked away from Acton Conservation Camp in Los Angeles County on Tuesday, ...
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Students share experiences with loss, destruction from ongoing Los Angeles wildfires
Several Notre Dame students discuss their experience with the California wildfires, describing the damage to local ...
What to learn from rebuilding of Paradise after 2018 wildfire? Plenty, says top insurance executive
Victor Joseph, president of Mercury Insurance, says there are lessons to be learned for L.A. from the rebuilding of Paradise following its destruction in the 2018 Camp fire.