Wall Street Journal19d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County. Median home values for Altadena’s Black households were $961,000 in 2023, compared with $677,700 ...
wallpaper19d
Reflections from Los Angeles: a local writer's personal account of the LA fires
For me, the 2025 Los Angeles fires state of emergency began on January 10 at 3.48 am with four loud squarks on my iPhone and an urgent message: 'be ready to evacuate.' The Palisades fire was three ...
The Atlantic20d
Los Angeles’s Ash Problem
When I saw gardeners arriving armed with leaf blowers, my heart sank. (Los Angeles County has temporarily banned their use because they throw up so much dust.) But no one knew exactly the right ...
The New York Times23d
How Los Angeles Dreams Became Kindling
Image The Los Angeles aqueduct near Sylmar. One of my neighbors, Timothy Dundon, known by his alter ego, Zeke the Sheik, had put the tragedy to rhyme. A tall man with a long gray beard ...
Scientific American23d
Here’s How Climate Change Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
As Greta Cazzaniga, a climate scientist at the ClimaMeter and the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute in France, said in a recent press statement, “the Los Angeles wildfires have shown how multiple ...
Business Insider23d
Photos show Los Angeles neighborhoods reduced to rubble as deadly wildfires continue to burn
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Parts of Los Angeles are still burning from multiple wildfires that have ravaged over 40,000 acres and killed at least 25 people. More than ...
New York Post23d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...
Los Angeles Times23d
The destruction of Altadena reverberates across Black Los Angeles
As Los Angeles communities were forced to integrate, Black residents often faced intimidation or outright violence when moving into predominantly white neighborhoods. But Altadena took a different ...
Al Jazeera English24d
‘Devastating’: Wildfire ravages historic Black community in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California – Bill Threadgill picked through the ashes of his home in Altadena, California, where he lived for 15 years, pulling out copper pipes and setting them aside to sell.
NPR24d
What LA did right before the fires — and why it wasn't enough
Los Angeles is no stranger to wildfires. With a long history of destructive blazes, the region has some of the toughest wildfire policies in the country. Still, driven by powerful winds ...
USA Today25d
LA fire crews make progress but dangers remain; EPA hazmat teams to start cleaning debris
PASADENA, Calif. − Firefighters were battling two monstrous wildfires Wednesday as weary residents across Los Angeles County stayed alert for another round of the Santa Ana winds that have ...
ABC News25d
The Los Angeles wildfires are already among the worst ever
Polling shows many Americans blame climate change for the disaster. Devastating wildfires have now been burning in greater Los Angeles for over a week, and the scale of the disaster is hard to ...