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Cleanup crews arrived at the largest site in the Palisades still filled with fire debris this week. However, residents hardly see it as a step toward returning home.
While cold-stunned iguanas fall from trees in Florida and videos circulate of frozen ‘exploding’ trees in the Northeast, Southern California is working up a sweat.
Three people were detained after an attempted burglary in the San Fernando Valley overnight, rattling an area that has been subject to sometimes violent break-ins.
Assemblymember John Harabedian is introducing new legislation that would create statewide science-based standards for the testing and removal of contamination left by wildfires.
The students of Palisades Charter High School are set to return to classes after the school district said its tests have cleared the grounds of contamination. But there are concerns about the efficacy of the testing protocols.
The L.A. City Council moved to adopt relatively lenient “Zone Zero” laws for homes in fire danger zones, measures that do not align with the plans that state agencies are working to enact.
Some L.A. residents are championing a proposed fire-safety rule, referred to as “Zone Zero,” requiring the clearance of flammable material within the first five feet of homes.
For months, federal officials have said post-cleanup soil testing for fire-stricken homes in L.A. was unnecessary. Now, they plan to test 100 homes destroyed in the Eaton fire.
In the year since the Eaton and Palisades fires, everyday people have stepped in where government leadership has failed. Here are the lessons they’ve learn and the futures they imagine.
