Fiona Ng
Deputy Managing Editor
(she/her)
Fiona Ng oversees our Explore L.A. vertical and leads our weekend crew. She was previously the show creator of K-pop Dreaming and led reporting and production on the podcast series. Before that, she was the senior producer of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on LAist (formerly KPCC). As a freelance writer, she has written for Los Angeles Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, New York Times, with an emphasis on covering the Chinese diaspora.
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Maybe it isn't windy where you are right now, but some areas of Southern California are experiencing strong gusts like those that drove the growth of L.A.'s recent deadly wildfires. This is how the National Weather Service makes its forecasts and decides when to issue warnings. -
Think of PDS or "particular dangerous situation" as the National Weather Service's Rolls Royce for fire weather.
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Firefighting efforts got a leg up Tuesday from weaker than predicted winds — but harsh fire conditions are still in the forecast. -
A commercial and fine art photographer tackles wildfire as one of his major themes. This week, he lost his Altadena duplex to the Eaton Fire. -
Messages went out at 4 p.m. Thursday and 4:24 a.m. Friday, rattling the nerves of an already shaken region. -
The animal shelter in Pasadena has taken more than 350 pets whose families have had to evacuate from the Eaton Fire. More are expected to arrive. -
Roughly 82,400 residents remain under evacuation orders or warnings across Los Angeles County. -
Sheriff's officials have door-to-door searches with cadaver dogs underway in daylight hours. -
Rob Caves and members of the Christmas Tree Lane Model Railroad Society have built a gigantic model train set that is ever expanding in his backyard. -
Signmakers L.A. makes all kinds of signs, but they have become the go-to folks to fix and make vintage neon signs.
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