Some of L.A.’s Fires Were Put Out Quickly. There Are Lessons in That.
While some Angelenos cast around for someone to blame, a whole cooperative emergency-response system whirred to life.
Cal Fire’s predictions didn’t foresee the Altadena inferno. Now it’s changing its fire-hazard maps
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...
California wildfires: What we know about L.A.-area fires, what caused them, who is affected and more
Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared ...
NASA Satellites Show How California’s Wildfire Crisis Was Years in the Making
The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...
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Climate change made deadly Los Angeles wildfires 35% more likely: new attribution study
The fires, likely to be the costliest in world history, were made about 35% more likely due to the 1.3°C of global warming ...
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Here’s how much lumber Southern California will need to rebuild after the wildfires
The Palisades, Eaton and Hurst wildfires in Southern California have destroyed more ... writing the weekly Commodities Corner column since 2005.
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California wildfires could slow the economy and boost inflation — and that’s not even the worst of it, economists say
The devastating wildfires that have destroyed entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles this month are adding up to the costliest wildfire event in California history, and they will slow the U.S ...
Explainer: What is FEMA, US emergency agency under fire from Trump?
President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management ...
GOP leaders want to put conditions on California wildfire aid. Is there precedent for that?
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the feds shouldn’t give California aid unless the state changes its water policy.
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These 12 Brands Are Donating Proceeds to California Wildfire Relief Efforts
Devastating updates continue to unfold about the California Wildfires. Nearly 40,000 acres in Los Angeles County have been destroyed, 27 lives have been lost, and evacuation orders are now in ...
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Costs from California wildfires will be 'astronomical' as million-dollar homes burn
California and author of Burn Scars, a history of fire suppression in the U.S. published last September. Get weather and fire alerts via text:Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location ...
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'This is your Hurricane Katrina.' Why California wildfires are being compared to 2005 storm.
Stoked by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, the California wildfires that broke out Jan ... were two of the city's hardest hit communities in 2005. In New Orleans, “a lot of people had flood ...