California Wildfires

The highly anticipated resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez has been rescheduled due to the Los Angeles County wildfires.

Less than a year since it launched, Extreme Weather Survivors keeps gaining new members as the U.S. faces more frequent disasters. The network provides support for survivors, but it also delivers unified support for climate action. National climate reporter Chase Cain introduces us to a couple who lost their home in the Eaton Fire.

The term defensible space has been noted by firefighters as a crucial part of protecting homes and businesses from the LA wildfires. What does it mean?

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.

Los Angeles-area firefighters made significant progress over the week in battling the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires, but evacuation orders for areas impacted by the blazes remain in effect as the weekend begins.

When the Eaton Fire flared up Jan. 9, flames climbed to the summit of Mount Wilson northeast of LA. What happened next was a fire prevention success.

The Los Angeles wildfires have forced thousands of students to relocate to other schools.

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is donating $500,000 to help firefighters and others affected by the area’s deadly wildfires.

The region remains on high alert as the latest wind event continues.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau has released the identities of at least 17 people who are still at-risk, missing since the start of the wildfires in Southern California. A total of 31 missing person cases are still actively being investigated. LASD is asking for the public’s help in finding these missing people:

Homeowner, Totress Beasley, had just made her final payment on her Pasadena home days before it was destroyed in the Eaton fire. 

California is years behind in implementing a 2020 law aiming to make it harder for homes to burn during a wildfire. It was slated to take effect in 2023, but the board tasked with developing the regulations has not finalized its guidelines.

A long-time San Gabriel Valley locksmith is providing his services for free to evacuated residents forced to abandon their cars as they escaped the Eaton Fire.

A local deputy is speaking out after his home was destroyed in the Eaton Fire in Altadena last week.

Amid the devastating wildfires ravaging Southern California, Angelenos have found an important lifeline in the nonprofit app Watch Duty. Founder John Mills dials-in and explains how banding together information from radio operators who listen to firefighters talking on the ground has helped millions of Los Angeles residents stay up to date on evacuation orders, fire updates and more.

Who is playing at LA FireAid? Here’s the list of bands and artists scheduled to perform Jan. 30 at the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome.

Schools in the Pasadena Unified School District will be reopened in phases over a two-week period in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire.

Some residents might need to wait another week or more before they can return to homes still standing in the Eaton and Palisades fire zones, authorities said Thursday.

A Pacific Palisades house that was still standing after the Palisades Fire was split in two by a landslide in the neighborhood overlooking the Los Angeles County coast.

The region remains on high alert as the latest wind event continues.