Last January, fires were raging across Los Angeles, smothering some 20 million people across the region in toxic smoke and ash. L.A. residents worried that the air was toxic, the soil contaminated, ...
Plumes of fiery smoke drift over Santa Monica at night as the Pacific Palisades fire burns near Los Angeles on January 7, 2025. (Ward DeWitt/Getty Images) When wildfires began racing through the Los ...
Molly Coogan always had a go-bag packed. Her in-laws' home had burned in the Nuns Fire in Sonoma County in 2017, and she and her husband knew wildfire risk all too well. But like most people with an ...
Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 10 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the Los Angeles area. In ...
On the first anniversary of the most destructive wildfires in the L.A. area, the scant home construction projects stand out among the still mostly flattened landscapes. Fewer than a dozen homes have ...
When wildfires began racing through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, 2025, the scope of the disaster caught residents by surprise. Forecasters had warned about high winds and exceptionally dry ...
Yifang Zhu is working with CAP.LA (Community Action Project Los Angeles), which is funded by the R&S Kayne Foundation, and the LA Fire Health Study, which is funded by private philanthropists, ...