Cal Fire's predictions didn't foresee the Altadena inferno. Now it's changing its fire-hazard maps
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...
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Santa Rosa wrote the playbook for the long road to recovery after 2017 Tubbs Fire. These lessons could aid Los Angeles
Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...
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'Pineapple Express' among trio of atmospheric river events impacting California for days
A series of three atmospheric river storms are soaking Northern California this weekend and into the week ahead in the form ...
California should expedite rules that could have helped mitigate L.A. fires, lawmakers say
Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...
LA’s Devastating Wildfire Crisis Didn’t Start With a Spark – It Started With Rain
A perfect storm of climate extremes set the stage for devastating wildfires in Los Angeles in early 2025. After two ...
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David Ono Reports: SoCal Firestorm
ABC7's David Ono takes a deeper and more personal look at what was happening as the Eaton and Palisades fires ravaged the ...
NASA Satellites Show How California’s Wildfire Crisis Was Years in the Making
The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...
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Outpacing Government? Lessons from Watch Duty’s Rise
Watch Duty’s success raises questions about why citizen-led tech is outpacing government emergency response efforts. The company’s co-founder explores the lessons agencies can learn from this ...
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Maps: See updated damage assessments for Eaton and Palisades fires
Three weeks after the Palisades and Eaton Fires, many impacted families are starting to figure out their plans moving forward ...
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What’s Left of Post-War Gaza, ‘Forever’ Chemicals in Spain’s Water, and the United States of Deportation
The latest edition of our Top 10 in Data Journalism column also highlights the risks of nuclear war, drought in the Amazon, ...
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Extorting With Disaster: Why Stop At California?
North Carolina is another state prone to hurricanes—and in fact Hurricane Helene last fall triggered a Biden administration ...
Too little, too late: Residents say they were in the dark as fire spread with no evacuation order
When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...