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Wildfire Updates
As wildfires continue to impact our communities, LAist, PBS SoCal, KCRW, and CalMatters have come together to deliver free, reliable local news and updates. Daily to start. Less frequent as conditions improve.
Wildfire Updates is a new newsletter from LAist, PBS SoCal, KCRW and CalMatters that helps Southern Californians make sense of our catastrophic wildfires.
LAist’s Wildfire Coverage
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A new study addresses the question, concluding that climate change increased the likelihood of the fires and boosted the amount of land that burned. -
An effort to bring free clothes, toiletries and a sense of normalcy to girls displaced by January’s fires now has a physical home in Old Town Pasadena. -
Most survivors of January's fires face a massive gap in the money they need to rebuild, and funding to help is moving too slowly or nonexistent. -
Jonathan Rinderknecht was indicted Wednesday with two additional felonies by a federal grand jury. -
Homeowners in fire hazard zones may have to remove bushes, hedges and flowers within 5 feet of their houses — even as extreme heat becomes more dangerous. -
The report is quite critical, documenting how systemic problems endangered the lives of firefighters and the public.
