Audience-funded nonprofit news
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
-
Listen Listen
Eaton Fire: A rebuilding journey
Josie Huang, weekend host for LAist 89.3 and a veteran reporter, is among the thousands of people to lose her home in the devastating fires that hit L.A. in January 2025. She shares the journey as she and Altadena neighbors work to rebuild.
Listen
5:41
Reporting on the fire that destroyed my neighborhood
Josie Huang returns to her burned out street as she and others navigate losing their Altadena homes in the Eaton Fire.
-
LAist is asking residents of communities affected by the 2025 fires to share photos of what rebuilding means a year after the fires. -
The funding will go towards training school staff at 33 schools in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades areas. -
A year after the deadly Eaton Fire, Altadena business owners aim to return while also dealing with rebuilding their homes. -
Community groups helped the arts community rebuild, but those who received aid and those who gave it say the relief system needs work ahead of the next disaster. -
Southern California Edison received 1,500 applications for its Eaton Fire compensation program and paid out 82 after close to two months.
More Stories
-
Authorities in Anaheim are investigating the death of an unidentified victim whose body was discovered inside a burning car early Friday morning.
-
One burning car escalated into three burning cars parked along a North Hollywood street early Wednesday morning thanks to a gas-fueled chain reaction blaze.
-
ride that is currently under construction at Universal Studios. County firefighters responded to a call from the theme park at 1:15 pm.
-
The popular Haitian spot that was so instrumental in the earthquake relief is shutting its doors at the end of this month.
-
A man's dead body was found this morning inside a taxi cab parked outside a burning home in San Dimas, and authorities believe the victim committed suicide.
-
A brush fire is moving through the hilly terrain of Santa Barbara, and is threatening homes near Highway 154 and Painted Cave Road.
-
Early this morning the body of a man shot to death was found inside a burning SUV in Mount Washington.
-
The Williams Fire, which has burned nearly 4,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest since it broke out Sunday, will not be fully contained until late next week, according to new estimates.
-
You read that right: Rocks collected by a woman and her kids at an Orange County beach somehow combusted inside her cargo shorts.
-
As part of the ongoing repairs stemming from a fiery April 7th crash on the 134 Freeway near Glendale, Caltrans will be closing down sections of the freeway for three consecutive nights this weekend starting Friday.
