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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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Here’s a story for the next time someone tells you that video games make you a violent/useless sociopath/stoner: this morning, a 22-year-old man in Westminster who was in the midst of a video game rescued his 87-year-old neighbor, who was overcome by smoke in a mobile home fire across the street. -
A mother and her daughter are missing after a fire broke out at the mechanic shop they lived above. -
With three major fires already this year, this could be the worst season for Southern California wildfires in 100 years, officials warn. -
A savage wildfire is raging into its second day in Ventura County, and firefighters from multiple agencies are working to get the blaze contained. -
A 22-year-old Orange County woman is on the hook for arson and possibly attempted murder charges after she allegedly set her home on fire last week with her mother, child, and roommates inside. -
Authorities in Anaheim are investigating the death of an unidentified victim whose body was discovered inside a burning car early Friday morning.
