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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.
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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.
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Southern California Edison received 1,500 applications for its Eaton Fire compensation program and paid out 82 after close to two months. -
A year after the Los Angeles fires, communities remain strong, losses remain significant, and efforts to rebuild are underway. -
The mosque is currently operating out of a temporary space rented from a church. -
L.A. residents from both communities shared their memories from before the Eaton and Palisades fires. LAist created hand-drawn illustrations to bring those memories to life. -
A state law extended mortgage forbearance for up to a year, but survivors say there’s far more to do.
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Jonathan Rinderknecht was indicted Wednesday with two additional felonies by a federal grand jury.
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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.
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The report is quite critical, documenting how systemic problems endangered the lives of firefighters and the public.
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SoCal Edison says it will announce its compensation program sometime this fall.
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The release comes the same day federal prosecutors charged a man in connection with starting an earlier blaze that became the Palisades Fire.
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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."
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The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.
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All disasters are chaotic, but an LAist review of reports produced after two wildfire incidents found similar shortcomings and similar recommendations about how to fix them.
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More than half of sales through September have been to corporate developers. Grassroots community efforts continue to work to combat the trend.
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Transmission lines have been linked to the start of the Eaton fire in January. But another kind of line — distribution lines that power homes — were also wreaking havoc before that fire sparked.
