Why some L.A. homes remain standing next to ones destroyed by fires: "Like a blow torch"
Many experts say luck does play a part — but they also say there are many ways that homes can be made less vulnerable to fire.
California Faces New Santa Ana Wind Blast As Fires Continue
California Governor Gavin Newsom has deployed fire engines, water-dropping aircraft and hand crews across the region—to ...
Tracking the damage and devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires in maps
The Palisades Fire has been the largest in terms of burned areas. The iconic Malibu restaurant Moonshadows was completely ...
Los Angeles Fire Victims Turn to Prefab Homes for Quick Builds
Even as fires continue to burn across Los Angeles, many of those who lost their houses are already making plans to rebuild. To overcome labor shortages and speed up the process, some are turning to ...
Local landmarks lost and damaged by raging Los Angeles fires
As fires continue to burn through Southern California, some of the region's landmarks have been burned or destroyed by the ...
The Design Legacy of Los Angeles That Fell to the Fires
The finality of the wildfires’ destruction has taken 10 more cherished buildings — by Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain, Eric Owen ...
The homes are the fire's fuel
The home ignites, becoming the fire’s fuel. Soon, it puts off radiant heat that can ignite the exterior of the home next door ...
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Why Los Angeles was unprepared for this fire
In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped ...
Los Angeles home survived the fire, only to be split in two by a landslide
A Los Angeles home that survived the Palisades Fire was damaged by a landslide. The risk of landslides rises after wildfires, ...
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For L.A.’s homeless population, the fires upend hard-earned stability
“I just want my building to still be here so I can ... with family — or anywhere back on the streets in Los Angeles, still ringed by fire and smoke. Hoppmeyer and Curtis left to check another ...
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What LA did right before the fires — and why it wasn’t enough
Los Angeles County already has strict wildfire building codes for homes and has passed rules that limit new development in wildfire-prone areas. Still, the ferocity of the fires exceeded what ...
LA fire victims fear rebuilding ordeal. Some will not do it
"Oh no. Hell no. That fire took everything out of me," said Karen Myles, 66. "I’m going to fly away somewhere, somewhere nice ...