Update: Containment progress – Palisades Fire in Los Angeles County at 43%
Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,713 acres after being active for 11 days. A crew of 5,478 firefighters has been working on site and they managed to contain 43% of the fire by Saturday afternoon. The blaze's cause remains under investigation.
How to help those affected by fires raging across Los Angeles County
Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.
Alert: Analysis: Los Angeles fires have scorched largest urban area in California in at least 40 years
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‘Fire weather’ over Los Angeles
Fire weather” is a term increasingly used to describe the atmospheric conditions that have rendered California’s recent wildfires uncontrollable. This emerging pattern combines hot, dry air that draws moisture from the soil and vegetation,
LA fires scorched largest urban area in California in last 40 years
Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban areas than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows. The Eaton and Palisades fires that erupted last week have collectively burned almost 4 square miles of highly dense parts of Los Angeles,
California residents warned of landslide risk following Los Angeles wildfires
California residents are being warned of potential landslides in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires. A man in Los Angeles lost his home to a mudslide just days after surviving the Palisades blaze.
Los Angeles Fire Chief Faces Calls for Resignation
As a disastrous fire continues to burn on the city’s west side, some are calling Chief Kristin Crowley to account: Why wasn’t ...
A timeline of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires as they continue to burn
Los Angeles County has been devastated by two deadly wildfires that have become some of the most destructive in California ...
Los Angeles home survived the fire, only to be split in two by a landslide
A Los Angeles home that survived the Palisades Fire was damaged by a landslide. The risk of landslides rises after wildfires, ...
The death toll continues to rise in the Los Angeles firestorm. Here are some victims’ stories
The most destructive fires in the city’s history claimed 27 lives. Officials say that number will likely increase.
New wildfire concerns in Los Angeles: Strong winds could return next week.
Firefighters are making progress, officials said, but residents must be ready for a return of powerful winds that could ...
Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire
About 1,600 policies for Pacific Palisades homeowners were dropped by State Farm in July, the state insurance office says.
Inmate firefighters: Over 1,000 prisoners deployed to battle Los Angeles fires
Inmate firefighters responding to the ongoing Los Angeles fires and working 24-hour shifts are earning $26.90 per day, ...
A Bastion of Los Angeles Hippie Culture Survived the Flames
For Emmeline Summerton, a self-taught social historian whose Instagram account, Lost Canyons LA, has become an addictive ...
How Russia used the Los Angeles fires to spread anti-Ukraine propaganda
Pro-Kremlin social media accounts and outlets have been spreading a baseless narrative that mansions belonging to Ukrainian ...
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
We have over 100 fire apparatus out of service,” Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley admitted when the wildfires were ...