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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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Board members of the Altadena Builds Back Foundation include those who lost homes in the Eaton Fire. -
The Pasadena-based Greenline Housing Foundation is the first community organization to close on an Eaton Fire lot. -
Residents find a semblance of normalcy amid the stacks. -
Churchgoers recruited by Samaritan’s Purse have helped hundreds of Altadenans recover valuables. -
The sports community has been prominent in wildfire recovery with franchise owners giving large donations and sports stars communing with those affected by the disaster.
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Los Angeles has an acute shortage of qualified construction workers as the region tries to rebuild from the Eaton and Palisades fires.
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April’s national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.
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Hundreds of Altadena residents want to rebuild with a modern sewer system, but that's proving to be harder and more expensive than they expected.
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The fire started Friday afternoon fueled by Santa Ana winds. It's all but contained by Sunday morning.
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Residents who weren’t directly affected can also share their observations about the county’s response.
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The Palisades Bowl was a rare affordable spot in the area. As sellers pitch the property as a “blank canvas" for developers, those displaced wonder if they'll ever go home.
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The deposition was released by representatives of the thousands of families affected by the Palisades Fire.
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LAist is asking residents of communities affected by the 2025 fires to share photos of what rebuilding means a year after the fires.
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The utility's changes include increasing compensation for legal fees and for renters. Some survivors say it doesn't go far enough.
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Two new studies have identified an alarming connection between exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy and autism in young children.
