David Garrick - The San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego has been slow to revamp how it monitors and removes flammable brush on city-owned land, despite a 2023 audit saying the city’s efforts are poorly coordinated and not comprehensive enough. Brush management is...
A South Pasadena teacher’s innovative sprinkler system is gaining national attention for helping homeowners protect their properties. David Whitman, a high school environmental sciences teacher, has developed self-contained fire sprinkler systems that use swimming...
Among the most high priority items cited in Phase Three are staffing of an Office of the State Fire Marshal and engaging state agencies in addressing the Phase Two findings and recommendations.
By The Associated Press Firefighters around Los Angeles were preparing on Tuesday to attack flare-ups or new blazes. The National Weather Service issued a rare warning that dry winds combined with severely dry conditions created a “ particularly dangerous...
Thomas Curwen - Los Angeles Times Not quite six years ago, wildfire expert Jack Cohen, who lives in Missoula, Mont., visited Pacific Palisades to instruct firefighters and property owners on how to protect homes against wildfires. Three days of training, including a...
Kevin Rector - Los Angeles Times Fire agencies are investigating whether downed Southern California Edison utility equipment played a role in igniting the Hurst fire near Sylmar, company officials said. The company issued a report Friday saying that a downed conductor...
By JAE HONG, HOLLY RAMER and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The death toll from the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area rose to 16 as crews battled to cut off the spreading blazes before potentially strong winds return that could push the...
Grace Toohey -Los Angeles Times Officials said they are making progress in protecting two key institutions from the Eaton fire. Don Fregulia, an operations section chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which has joined in the Eaton fire...
Linh Tat Los Angeles Daily News (TNS) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Thursday, Jan. 9, that she had spoken with President Joe Biden and that the federal government will pay for 100% of firefighting costs stemming from this week’s multiple wildfires, as she...
Firefighters battled early Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. Ferocious winds that drove...
Fierce wildfires are raging in the Los Angeles area, fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds, sending residents fleeing from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. Thousands of firefighters were battling at least three separate blazes,...
Nathaniel Percy - The Press-Enterprise Strong winds — with gusts as high as 79 mph in the San Gabriel Mountains — began blowing their way through Southern California on Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, leading to the possibility of downed trees and wires, power outages and...
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