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Fire Hazard Maps Changing after Altadena, CA, Inferno
CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the ...
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Debris Removal Efforts Tackle Areas Damaged by Eaton Fire
Status updates on the EPA’s work, including an interactive map of individual fire-affected properties ... Angeles and Carbon Beach Terrace in Malibu. Both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire in the ...
L.A. Wildfires: U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers Begins Phase 2 Debris Removal In Some Eaton Fire Locations
Army Corps of Engineers has officially begun its Phase 2 wildfire-debris removal at two Pasadena Unified School District campuses destroyed in the Eaton Fire.
California should expedite rules that could have helped mitigate L.A. fires, lawmakers say
Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...
LA’s Devastating Wildfire Crisis Didn’t Start With a Spark – It Started With Rain
A perfect storm of climate extremes set the stage for devastating wildfires in Los Angeles in early 2025. After two ...
As western Altadena waited hours for evacuation orders, fire commanders faced utter chaos
With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the ...
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Outpacing Government? Lessons from Watch Duty’s Rise
Watch Duty’s success raises questions about why citizen-led tech is outpacing government emergency response efforts. The company’s co-founder explores the lessons agencies can learn from this ...
Too little, too late: Residents say they were in the dark as fire spread with no evacuation order
When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...
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The Los Angeles County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...