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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 are three takeaways from an LAist interview with LAFD Chief Jaime Moore about the Palisades Fire. Hear the whole interview here. -
A new analysis finds that in 2025 major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse. -
Since the fire destroyed their homes, families have relocated everywhere from the East Coast to Europe. -
One year later, musicians who lost essential instruments and home studio set-ups in the Los Angeles fires are still picking up the pieces. -
The Palisades Fire destroyed and disrupted restaurants up and down the coast. A year later, here's which are open and which remain closed. -
Some have reopened since the January 2025 fire, but restaurants whose structures were destroyed face challenges around costs, logistics and building requirements.
