Los Angeles wildfire recovery czar will work for free after backlash to proposed $500,000 salary for 3 months
Steve Soboroff is a longtime fixture in Los Angeles civic life who is now serving as chief recovery officer for the city’s ...
Behind the staggering economic toll of the L.A. wildfires
The fires will have a deep and lasting impact on construction, entertainment, retail and other sectors of the Los Angeles ...
Wildfire losses and damage costs could reach up to $164 billion, UCLA report says
The two deadly wildfires that left widespread devastation after erupting on opposite ends of Los Angeles County last month ...
What the Eaton fire could mean for Edison’s bottom line
Edison generates billions of dollars in revenue every year and has a history of passing along the costs of disasters to ...
Haunting Before-And-After Images Show Devastation of California Fires
What remains from the fires that broke out Jan. 7 is a charred landscape, filled with skeletal trees and blackened debris.
The families of L.A. wildfire victims confront the failures that prevented escape
One month after the devastation, the public and California’s government are facing tough questions about their approach to ...
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Air, soil, water and dust: New study focuses on long-term health impacts of LA wildfire pollution
A team of researchers say they want to look at what exposure to toxins from thousands of burned structures does to people ...
California hit by heavy rainfall, flash floods and mudslides
Southern California has been hit by heavy floods which have caused mudslides and prompted evacuation calls. It comes just ...
L.A. is already getting fire recovery wrong. Two experts explain how to do it better
Two wildfire experts argue that the L.A. destruction didn't have to be as bad as it was. The question isn't whether we can ...
Victims killed in the L.A. wildfires include father and son, world traveler, former child actor
A hang-gliding pilot, a father and son and a former child actor are among those who have died due to the Los Angeles-area wildfires that started Jan. 7 and continue to ravage the area. At least 29 ...
Why Los Angeles Burned
The Los Angeles fires were burning evidence of how dangerous this delusion is. The fires were a bonfire of bad ideas that had ...
LA flash flood watch: Rain on wildfire burn scars can trigger destructive debris flows − a geologist explains how
Rain on burned hillslopes can trigger dangerous floods and debris flows. Those debris flows can move with the speed of a ...