Los Angeles Times

L.A.’s double disaster left thousands of scars, and the healing will take years

January’s catastrophic Eaton and Palisades fires killed 31 and destroyed over 16,000 structures, exposing systemic failures in preparedness, evacuation protocols and emergency response. Times ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The LA Fire Recovery Nightmare

As an inferno roared toward her California home last January, Pauline Ching didn’t have time to grab family photos or her Chinese jade and ivory antiques. The house where she had raised her children ...
Los Angeles Times

L.A.’s hydrants ran dry during the fires. Residents are still demanding solutions

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The deadly wildfires in January revealed the limitations of Southern California’s water systems. When the ...
EdSource

L.A. Fires: Schools mourn losses, celebrate progress on anniversary

A year ago, Tanya Reyes watched in disbelief as the Eaton fire incinerated her Altadena home. As her three daughters listed everything they had lost in the days that followed, Reyes kept reminding ...
NPR

The long-term health impacts from the LA wildfires are just becoming clear

Last January, fires were raging across Los Angeles, smothering some 20 million people across the region in toxic smoke and ash. LA residents worried that the air was toxic, the soil contaminated, and ...
The New Yorker

A New Paradigm for Protecting Homes from Disastrous Fires

In June, 2012, hundreds of homes in Mountain Shadows, Colorado, a subdivision in the foothills of the Rockies, were reduced to ash during the wind-whipped Waldo Canyon Fire. On a cul-de-sac called Hot ...