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Arbor Day: How Los Angeles is replanting trees after devastating wildfires
ABC News joined The Arbor Day Foundation and the Altadena nonprofit Amigos de los Rios to discuss replanting and preserving ...
Insurer of last resort kept growing. Then L.A. fire victims paid the price
As insurers withdrew from the L.A. market, more homeowners joined the FAIR Plan. Now Jan. 7 fire victims are battling with ...
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Living through a 'low-attention disaster,' Mountain Fire survivors recover in LA's shadow
SOMIS, Calif — The ashes of Hatim Naim's burned home lie just a few dozen miles west of the Los Angeles areas destroyed by January's Palisades and Eaton fires. But because the Mountain Fire ...
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Utilities are planning to bury power lines after the LA fires. Should they?
But as the effects of climate change escalate and we continue to live in areas increasingly prone ... See our coverage on that in the context of the LA fires here.) The fact is, the necessary ...
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Fires tied to homelessness make up nearly one-third of LAFD responses
The LA Fire Department says nearly a third of all firefighting responses in the last seven years have been tied to persons experiencing homelessness, and in a new report, officials suggested the ...
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Nearly a third of LA's fires last six years involved homeless people, new report shows
The 7 on Your Side Investigates Team has reported in the past how the Los Angeles Fire Department's response times don't always meet national standards. Now a new memo from Interim LAFD Chief ...
The Stranger24d
Could the LA Fires Happen Here?
On January 1, 2025, a fire sparked outside of Los Angeles, near the Temescal Ridge ... where the land largely dictates how humans can live,” the Department of Natural Resources wrote in their ...
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LA says homeless involved in one-third of fires, one in nine ambulance calls
The memo found rubbish fires — half of which involve the ... what we’ve already known — that the people whom Los Angeles consigns to live and die on the streets are a danger to themselves ...
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Unhoused account for nearly one-third of fire calls: Los Angeles Fire Dept.
The Los Angeles Fire Department has shared a report outlining the impact that an increasing homeless population has had on its resources in recent years. “Fire Department field resources respond ...
Washington Examiner9d
Los Angeles’s incompetence turned the city into a fire pit
Los Angeles’ s incompetent leadership turned the city into a ticking time bomb for massive fire damage. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the Los Angeles Fire Department had a budget of around $837 ...
Los Angeles Times29d
In Altadena, RV dwellers live next to their homes, straddling burn zone and normalcy
Although their houses survived the flames, Gill, Kardos and Mazarati can’t live in them yet. The smoke, soot and heat on Jan. 7 did too much damage. So, like a growing number of fire victims ...
Living through a ‘low-attention disaster,’ Mountain Fire survivors recover in LA’s shadow
Nearly six months after the Mountain Fire displaced 750 people and destroyed 182 homes and other structures in Ventura County ...