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Recent large wildfires in California have changed communities forever in ways difficult to predict. Rebuilding statistics tell only part of the story.
Just 38% of the 22,500 homes burned down in California’s five most destructive wildfires from 2017 to 2020 have been rebuilt, The Times found.
It’s been five years since a sudden shift in the wind brought the North Complex fire roaring up a remote canyon into the pines of Berry Creek, where it incinerated almost all of the more than 1,500 houses in the area and killed 16 people.
Methodology on rebuilding homes after wildfires project
Kevin de León was paid thousands of dollars by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and USC — and then within a year voted on issues that benefited the two organizations.
It’s not easy for Californians seeking care for themselves or their loved ones to find out if someone involved with another kind of care facility has been banned from running an assisted living home by the California Department of Social Services.
A Times investigation found that being banned from operating assisted living homes in California didn’t stop people from being involved in other care facilities.
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire’s “very high” fire hazard severity zones, yet a newer approach by an independent company had found Altadena had “severe” wildfire risk.
Toxic chemicals from L.A.’s fires are going underreported and pose serious long-term risks, a group of lawmakers says. They want the EPA to create a task force.
Draped in Mexican and Salvadoran flags, roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered near City Hall shortly before noon, blocking traffic at Spring and Temple streets.
