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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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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. -
SoCal Edison says it will announce its compensation program sometime this fall. -
The release comes the same day federal prosecutors charged a man in connection with starting an earlier blaze that became the Palisades Fire. -
Fires can smolder underground for months. "It really is more common than I think people realize,” a fire scientist says. “It just doesn’t usually reignite another fire."
