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Arbor Day: How Los Angeles is replanting trees after devastating wildfires
ABC News joined The Arbor Day Foundation and the Altadena nonprofit Amigos de los Rios to discuss replanting and preserving ...
Altadena suffered a ‘catastrophic failure.’ Did unincorporated status hurt fire response?
Altadena residents, who would see the worst damage from the Eaton fire, also experienced the most issues with evacuation ...
5 arrested for collecting thousands in fraudulent FEMA claims from Palisades, Eaton fires
Five people each face up to 30 years in prison for allegedly submitting false claims that their properties were damaged in ...
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Looters raise crime by 250% in Altadena, LASD says
Altadena residents who are trying to rebuild following the devastating Eaton Fire say they’re still seeing opportunistic ...
Left alone by humans, wildlife returns to the Eaton Fire burn area
Four months after the Los Angeles area wildfires tore through the Angeles National Forest and destroyed hundreds of homes and ...
Washington Examiner8d
Los Angeles’s incompetence turned the city into a fire pit
Los Angeles’ s incompetent leadership turned the city into a ticking time bomb for massive fire damage. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the Los Angeles Fire Department had a budget of around $837 ...
Lawsuits accuse insurers of colluding to drop coverage in fire-prone parts of California
Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles accuse the major home insurers of colluding to limit coverage in high-risk areas across ...
Cal Fire adds huge new firefighting plane as summer fire season approaches
Retrofitted C-130 cargo plane can fly farther, faster and carry more fire retardant than other Cal Fire aircraft ...
Opinion
California lawmakers can do a lot to aid LA fire recovery. Steeper looting penalties aren’t part of that
There were relatively few arrests inside evacuation zones during the LA fires, yet California legislators have put looting center stage.
LAist29d
Why some Los Angeles homes are being built to resist wildfires — and some aren't
That's because California is one of the ... deep down into Altadena, and they haven't," says Los Angeles County Fire Department deputy fire chief Albert Yanagisawa. The change in the maps is ...
The Bond Buyer23h
Los Angeles power agency heads to market in post-wildfire test
The city of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power face Palisades Fire-driven lawsuits from some 776 plaintiffs, ...
Phys.org18d
How racism fueled the Eaton Fire's destruction in Altadena
The damage from the Eaton Fire wasn't indiscriminate. The blaze that ravaged the city of Altadena, California ... a professional enclave connected to Los Angeles, 13 miles away, by the Pacific ...