
Start of Eaton Fire Focus Attention on Southern California Edison
Early on the evening of Jan. 7, a resident of a neighborhood of homes backed up against the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California saw what he described as a…
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What It’s Like to Be a Kid After a Fire Took Almost Everything
All they could grab were stuffed animals, toothbrushes, Barbie dolls and blankets. Their bunk beds, cleats and clothes burned with their houses. The New York Times interviewed 10 children and…
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In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree.
President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state’s Democrats have stubbornly refused…
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Residents Return to See What the Fire Left Behind, and to Say Goodbye
For two weeks, Leslie Miller was desperate to recover only one thing: the urn that held the ashes of her daughter who died in early adulthood. She wondered for days…
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More Than a Week After the Fires, Los Angeles Evacuees Remain in Limbo
“There will be moments where you’re strong and you can see a pathway forward,” he said, “and then there will be moments where you feel the loss, the helplessness and…
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Air Quality Improves Across L.A. as Smoke From Wildfires Eases
The sky was clear over Los Angeleson Tuesday, a welcome respite after acrid smoke from wildfires choked the region last week. In Santa Monica’s waterfront Palisades Park, the air was…
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L.A. Wildfire Evacuees Scramble to Find Shelter, Exacerbating Housing Shortage
Tens of thousands of wildfire evacuees in Los Angeles are now scrambling to find — and hold onto — temporary shelter, exacerbating the housing shortage in one of America’s least…
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What We Know About the California Wildfires
Follow continuing coverage of the wildfires in Southern California. The wildfires burning in and around Los Angeles have razed neighborhoods, killed at least 24 people and forced desperate evacuations. The…
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A Close Brush With Loss for a Community That Knows It Well
John Ward and his wife, Dawn Holder, were already packed and ready to go on Tuesday afternoon. The fire was then a 30-minute drive away, in the Pacific Palisades, and…
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‘Will Pay Any Amount:’ Private Firefighters Are in Demand in L.A.
Monument Street, which cuts through the center of Pacific Palisades, tells two starkly different stories of the fire that has engulfed the community. On one side, lots where multimillion-dollar houses…
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Palisades Lost – The New York Times
This weekend was supposed to be an ordinary one in Pacific Palisades. Boy Scout Troop 223 was planning a weekend camp-out at Malibu Creek. The local youth baseball tryouts were…
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The Eaton Fire Is Now One of California’s Deadliest
Late Saturday, the Los Angeles county medical examiner said that 11 people had been killed in the Eaton fire. It makes that blaze, near Pasadena, among the deadliest in California…
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Watch Duty, a Wildfire-Tracking App, Provides a Lifeline in Los Angeles
Paulette Lifton woke up on her 67th birthday on Tuesday morning in a panic to smoke pluming in the distance of her home in the Granada Hills neighborhood of Los…
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Los Angeles Geared Up for Fire Risk, but Fell Short
The alert came in blaring, hot-pink, all-caps: Be prepared for a “LIFE THREATENING & DESTRUCTIVE WINDSTORM!!!” The notice on Monday was one in a series of warnings issued by the…
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Palisades Fire Threatens Brentwood, Including the Getty Center
The Palisades fire in Los Angeles lurched east late Friday night, prompting emergency officials to expand mandatory evacuation orders to Brentwood, including the Getty Center. Like the nearby Pacific Palisades,…
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L.A. Utilities’ Decisions to Keep Power On Are Scrutinized
Power lines near the Eaton and Palisades fires in the Los Angeles area were on when those blazes started on Tuesday, which energy experts said was concerning because electrical equipment…
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Fires Prompt Water Advisories for Some in the L.A. Area
The devastating Southern California wildfires have raised worries about the safety of the water supply in several communities, whether because of diminished water pressure or the possibility of contamination by…
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Firefighting Aircraft Collides with Drone Over Palisades Fire
A firefighting aircraft flying over the Palisades fire in Los Angeles collided with a drone on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said, warning that flying drones can disrupt firefighting efforts…
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