What to learn from rebuilding of Paradise after 2018 wildfire? Plenty, says top insurance executive
Victor Joseph, president of Mercury Insurance, says there are lessons to be learned for L.A. from the rebuilding of Paradise ...
National Observer8h
Los Angeles needs to fireproof communities, not just houses
After the devastation of the Los Angeles fires, officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires ...
Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes ...
What people who rebuilt their homes after wildfires wish they'd done differently
One Malibu homeowner, who asked that her name not be printed to protect her family's privacy, is still in the process of rebuilding her home after the 2018 Woolsey Fire burned it to the ground. The ...
Fresno Business Journal1d
How the Los Angeles wildfires may touch the Central Valley
With at least 28 lives lost, more than 12,000 structures destroyed, 80,000-plus people who were or still are under evacuation orders and damage estimates in the tens of billions of dollars, the Los An ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat1d
The Los Angeles County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...
LAist1d
Wildland urban interface
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone ...
National Observer2d
We are releasing the monsters
California’s well-documented climate and fire history lets us see how global warming is cooking up ever more extreme fire ...
What Los Angeles fire victims can expect from their insurance adjuster
A public insurance adjuster may help negotiate a better insurance payout for residents who lost their homes in the Los ...
The New Yorker3d
Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno
The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...
The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues
The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with ...