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California Fires

Fire in Pacific Palisades

A month after L.A. firestorms, essential questions still haunt Southern California

A month after the L.A. firestorms brought unprecedented levels of destruction, the region is still grappling with basic questions about what caused the blazes, why evacuations were so chaotic and whether officials were prepared. Here is a rundown from Times reporting.

Family of 100-year-old left behind after evacuation of Altadena senior home calls for ‘concrete change’

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Scams, bidding wars and predatory landlords: One couple’s quest for housing after the fires

Finally we know where toxic ash from the L.A. wildfires could end up

Illustration of smoke plume revealing a house, trees and mountains by Daniel Savage

What we lost in the fires

Angelenos share photos and memories of what they lost in the Eaton and Palisades fires. Add your story to the Times’ collection

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Joshua Tree, CA, Tuesday, November 26, 2024 A prefabricated home recently went up on a private inholding in the Whispering Pines section of Joshua Tree National Park. The 870-square-foot home is in an ecologically sensitive area flanked by rocky hills where bighorn sheep and desert tortoises roam. Whispering Pines is an area of private inholdings in Joshua Tree National Park where people have had private vacation cabins for decades. But recently, neighbors have been disrupted by rumbling trucks carrying building materials to a site in the subdivision, with construction crews going so far as to bring in a road grader to widen the road into the area. Although it appears just one home is under construction now, rumor has it that the developers have purchased scores of plots in the rural, ecologically sensitive area and are planning a luxury resort that may be tied to a major hotel group. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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Mysterious land purchases within Joshua Tree National Park worry locals, environmentalists

People with hotel industry ties are among buyers and entities that have snapped up 22 parcels within national park boundaries; plans unclear.

Meet the New Owners in Whispering Pines

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEB. 4, 2025: General view of Los Angeles City Hall. Protesters against President Trump's policies on immigration walk across the street. (William Liang / For the Times)

Person stabbed after fight breaks out at L.A. protest against Trump’s immigration policies

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 24: (TWO-PICTURE PANORAMA) The apartment building at 5800 Harold Way in Los Angeles, CA (foreground) is under rent control. Most people assume rent control in Los Angeles applies to buildings built before 1978 but because of a relatively unknown city law, there are thousands of new buildings that also fall under rent control. Photographed on Harold Way in Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles City Council gives final approval to housing rezoning plan

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, file photo, Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, chairman of the Assembly housing committee, center, speaks during a news conference, in Sacramento, Calif. California judicial leaders are considering an early end to statewide emergency orders suspending foreclosures and evictions during the coronavirus pandemic, prompting objections from lawmakers and advocates, including Chiu, that they may be acting too soon and disproportionately harming minorities in the midst of civil unrest over the deaths of black people at the hands of police. The state's Judicial Council in early April delayed all eviction cases from moving forward as one of 13 steps responding to the pandemic. "Millions of Californians are hanging on by a thread financially," he said in a statement. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

San Francisco sues Trump administration over crackdown on sanctuary cities

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08: Members of the U.S. Marine Corps rehearse in hazy smoke for the Sunset Parade at the Lincoln Memorial on June 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. Air quality alert has been elevated to a Code Purple due to smoke from wildfires burning in Canada, indicating very unhealthy air conditions for the public. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Military freezes sexual assault prevention training after Trump executive order on DEI

FILE - The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Musk team’s access to student loan systems raises alarm over borrowers’ personal information

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Maria Eugenia Torres Ramirez has lived in Los Angeles since she arrived in the United States in 2021 as an asylum seeker. Torres Ramirez fled Venezuela after being targeted as an activist who opposed the government of President Nicolas Maduro. She has had Temporary Protected Status, which grants her a work permit and provisional deportation protection, while her asylum case is processed as an extra layer of protection. But if her asylum petition is denied, she worries she will be vulnerable to deportation without the protection of TPS. Photographed on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Trump administration is also going after immigrants who live here legally. It has them terrified

BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA-Three people in a disabled pickup truck were killed Friday morning, Feb. 7, 2025, when their vehicle was struck by a tractor trailer truck on the 91 Freeway in Buena Park, authorities said. The pickup truck was stopped on the freeway after being involved in a previous collision when it was struck by the tractor trailer truck shortly before 4 a.m., California Highway Patrol Officer Duane Graham said. (CALTRANS)

Three people in disabled pickup truck killed in crash on 91 Freeway in Buena Park

After shuttering in the pandemic, an ArcLight theater gets a second act

An asteroid could collide with Earth: What could happen if it hits, and should we worry?

Pasadena’s proudly ‘weird’ Bar Chelou restaurant to close this month

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Tom Brady played in 10 Super Bowls. The road to first one as a broadcaster has been challenging

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Super Bowl LIX: Start time, teams, how to watch and halftime show

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Kareem Hunt says this isn’t first time Chiefs coach Andy Reid gave him a second chance

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Super Bowl XVIII hero Marcus Allen recognizes something super in Eagles’ Saquon Barkley

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Super Bowl LIX security concerns? New Orleans visitors will be with ‘a sea of blue’

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LIX facts you need to know about the X Super Bowls staged in New Orleans

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A Chiefs bar in Eagles country? Not all Philly faithful are seeing red

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Super Bowl three-peat? Chiefs trying to make history alongside Lakers

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Ken Norton Jr. is lone player to three-peat at Super Bowl. Will Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce join him?

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Investigating the Fires

PARADISE, CALIF. -- SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018: Ryan Spainhower embraces his wife Kimberly Spainhower, after he recovers a coin that he and his wife made during their honeymoon in 2004, from debris of his home that was destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., on Nov. 18, 2018. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

What to learn from rebuilding of Paradise after 2018 wildfire? Plenty, says top insurance executive

Altadena, CA, Sunday, January 26, 2025 - Homes along Concha St. and nearby lay in ruins less than two weeks after the Eaton Fire devastated the area. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Power lines over Eaton Canyon saw surge in current before fire, Edison reveals

This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 18: National Guard posted at Sunset Boulevard and Via de la Paz in Pacific Palisades on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Fires and windstorms caused at least $350 million in damage to L.A. public facilities, report says

Altadena, CA - January 21: Drone images of western Altadena where residents got evacuation order many hours after Eaton fire exploded. All of the 17 deaths confirmed so far in the Eaton fire occurred in areas of western Altadena that received emergency evacuation orders many hours after the fire started. Photographed on west Terrace Street Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in Altadena, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Altadena was his paradise for 57 years. Could a fire evacuation order have saved him?

Anthony Mitchell Sr. poses with two of his great grandchildren.

Many residents with disabilities can’t flee fires on their own. Could a database help?

ALTADENA, CA - JANUARY 10, 2025 - - Claire Wavell, stands near a casita, destroyed in the Eaton fire, in the backyard of her family's home in Altadena on January 10, 2025. The majority of the home survived the Eaton fire and is still standing. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Western Altadena got evacuation order many hours after Eaton fire exploded. 17 people died there

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 17, 2025 - - Investigators look over the site at the base of a transformer that may have been the cause of the Eaton Fire in Pasadena on January 17, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Judge orders Southern California Edison to preserve evidence and equipment in Eaton fire

Pacific Palisades, CA - January 07: The Palisades fire destroys a home on El Medio Ave. on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 17, 2025 - - Homeowners Michael and Josie Olson, both 70, stand in the backyard of their home overlooking the transformer that may have been where the Eaton fire began in Pasadena on January 17, 2025. The couple's home and their neighbor's homes along Canyon Close Road survived the fire even though they were in close proximity. "We had a first row seat to history," said Olson. "But for the grace of God and the Pasadena fire department, we wouldn't be here today," he concluded. They have lived in the home for 23 years. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

How did a cluster of homes near the Eaton fire’s ignition point emerge unscathed?

This Wednesday, March 18, 2015 photo shows the front of the headquarters of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power lost up to $88 million in commercial billings because of the botched rollout of a computer billing system. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Inside L.A.’s desperate battle for water as the Palisades fire exploded

TOPSHOT - In this aerial view taken from a helicopter, burned homes are seen from above during the Palisades fire in Malibu, Los Angeles county, California on January 9, 2025. Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles remained totally uncontained January 9, 2025, authorities said, as US National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder. Swaths of the United States' second-largest city lay in ruins, with smoke blanketing the sky and an acrid smell pervading almost every building. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Lessons from the burn zone: Why some homes survived the L.A. wildfires

ALTADENA, CA - JANUARY 14: Destroyed cars and homes on Loma Alta Drive in Altadena, CA on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t

Pasadena, CA - January 12: Power lines in Eaton Canyon on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025 in Pasadena, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Regulators criticized Edison’s wildfire safety actions months before deadly Eaton fire

Pacific Palisades, CA - January 13: LAPD officers keep the public and media out of the Skull Rock Trailhead in an area that is under investigation as a potential starting point for the Palisades fire on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

What sparked the Palisades fire? A beloved hiking trail may hold the grim answers

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - JANUARY 7, 2025 - - A firefighter tries to put out a portion of the Pacific Palisades fire that threatens a nearby building along Sunset Blvd. In Pacific Palisades on January 7, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame ‘tremendous demand’

The Santa Ynez reservoir as seen from above on September 28, 2022.

State to probe why Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline, empty when firestorm exploded

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 8: California Governor Gavin Newsom (R) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds, the Palisades Fire has grown to over 2,900 acres and 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate while a second major fire continues to burn near Eaton Canyon in Altadena. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Did Mayor Karen Bass really cut the fire department budget? The answer gets tricky

SYLMAR, CA - JANUARY 08: The Hurst fire burns in the hills above Sylmar, CA on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Officials investigating whether Southern California Edison equipment ignited Hurst fire

LA County firefighter Scott Takeguma works to douse the flames on home in North Altadena.

Why hydrants ran dry as firefighters battled California’s deadly fires

An alert sent out in error Thursay told scores of Angelenos of an evacuation warning

Faulty evacuation alerts woke Angelenos in a panic. What’s wrong with L.A.’s emergency system?

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - JANUARY 8, 2025 - - Pali High School

Insurance commissioner issues moratorium on home policy cancellations in fire zones

Altadena, CA, Wednesday, Jan 8, 2025 - Samuel Girma braves the heat of a burning house as he tries to prevent it's spread Nextdoor on LaPaz Rd. as the Eaton Fire continues to grow. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

L.A. officials admit firefighters were overwhelmed and outgunned by deadly firestorms

ALTADENA, CA - JANUARY 8, 2025: The Bank of America building burns along with many other businesses on Lake Avenue during the Eaton fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Four lawsuits filed against Southern California Edison over Eaton fire

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 12: These electrical lines and towers are seen along North Altadena Drive to the northwest of where the fire may have been sparked, seen on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025 in Pasadena, CA. (John McCoy / For The Times)

Investigators study Eaton Canyon electrical tower area as possible origin of Altadena fire

Rebuilding L.A.: Help for Angelenos

Malibu, CA - January 09: A man looks through debris at a beachfront home destroyed in the Palisades fire on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in Malibu, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Online tracker shows insurance payments to wildfire survivors

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - JANUARY 28: A barrier encircles a destroyed car on Bashford Street to contain the contaminants in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Your car didn’t escape the fire? Here’s how to get rid of it

A gardener kneels in hip boots to harvest lettuce in an ash covered garden

My house didn’t burn but ash from the L.A. fires fell in my yard. Can I eat from my garden? Is my soil safe?

Pacific Palisades CA, Thursday, January 9, 2025 - Aerial view of neighborhoods destroyed by the Palisades Fire. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

How to sign up for debris removal if you lost your home in the Palisades or Eaton fires

Debris from a destroyed home is seen as a newly built ADU (accessory dwelling unit) stands behind after surviving the Eaton Fire, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

How to organize your financial life ahead of natural disasters

PASADENA, CA-JANUARY 19, 2025: Angie Martin, whose house was destroyed by the Eaton Fire, is having her hair done as hairstylists and barbers from across L.A. are offering free hair services and products to victims of the wildfires at Pasadena City College in Pasadena on Sunday, January 19, 2025.(Etienne Laurent / For The Times)

‘When you look good, you feel good’: Black hairstylists offer free services to fire victims

Arms and heads stick out the windows of a house lifted by legs sticking out the bottom

Evacuated? Hosting someone who is? Try these 9 tips for harmonious communal living

Los Angeles, CA - January 11: California Gov. Gavin Newsom greets firefighters from Mexico arriving to combat multiple wildfires overtaking southern California at LAX on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / For the Times)

California banks and credit unions offer mortgage relief to fire victims, Newsom announces

ALTADENA, CA, JANUARY 9, 2025: William Harris, 63, center, accesses the damage of his home that was burned down by the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

California revamps its website for L.A. County fire recovery

Pacific Palisades, California January 9, 2025-A partially burned book sits among rubble on Goucher St. in Pacific Palisades after the Palisades Fire Thursday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Fires destroyed your family photos. Here are some ways to restore those memories

illustration of a water faucet with drops of flames dripping out

Boiling won’t help. Explaining the Palisades and Altadena ‘Do Not Use’ water alerts

Post fire paperwork story

Paralyzed by heaps of post-fire paperwork? Here are 8 tips to get started

SANTA MONICA, CA - JANUARY 17: The view of Alexandra Clark's neighbor's house from her backyard. Her Pacific Palisades house survived with minor damage. Photographed on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

How to get property tax relief if your house burned in the fires

Malibu, CA - January 15: Drone images in the aftermath of the Palisades fire above PCH in Malibu between Rambla Pacifico St. and Carbon Canyon Rd. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 in Malibu, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Now that you can return home after the fires, how do you clean up safely?

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 8: California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds, the Palisades Fire has grown to over 2,900 acres and 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate while a second major fire continues to burn near Eaton Canyon in Altadena. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Five major banks offering mortgage relief in fire-ravaged L.A. region areas, Newsom announces

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 15, 2025: Volunteer counselors Ann McNamee, top left, and Maddy Cross play Duck-Duck-Goose with children who attend Project Camp, free childcare care to families impacted by the fires, at Eagle Rock Recreation Center on January 15, 2025 in Los Angeles, California (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Free camps are offering a safe space for kids as L.A. fires cause child-care upheaval

The cover of a U.S. Passport is displayed in Tigard, Ore., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Lose your essential documents in the L.A. fires? Here’s how you can replace them

Brentwood, CA - January 14: Fire retardant coats the roof of a home in Mandeville Canyon where firefighters are preparing for high winds forecasted for the burn areas in the Palisade fire zone on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 in Brentwood, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Does your home reek of wildfire smoke? Here’s how to get rid of it — safely