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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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Property tax relief letters, including refund checks, are getting returned because the homes they’re being sent to were destroyed in the fires. -
The owners of Fair Oaks Burger contacted Vargas to paint a mural at the business to pay tribute to Altadena’s resiliency. An unveiling is set for June 7. -
Ferrazzani’s Pasta and Market wants to keep feeding the community as it recovers. -
The U.S. government filed the lawsuit in 2023 to recover firefighting costs and to address other damages from the wildfire in fall 2020. -
Local officials have told tenants to sue landlords who refuse to clean post-fire smoke damage. A new lawsuit seeks to require inspections and enforcement. -
Five months after the Eaton Fire, soil tests show elevated levels of lead and other toxic metals in and around the affected areas.
