‘This is your Hurricane Katrina’: Former FEMA heads describe long road ahead for L.A.
Craig Fugate, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Obama administration, has seen a lot of natural disasters. ...
Tag: Climate & Environment
Paradise lost along Pacific Coast Highway
Everyone knows California is disaster-prone, but there’s a familiar logic to the calamitous geography in this high-maintenance beauty of a ...
2024 was the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA confirm
Amid a week of horrifying wildfires in Los Angeles, government agencies in the U.S. and around the world confirmed Friday ...
As the fires continue to smolder, what is the air quality forecast for this weekend?
A veil of wildfire smoke continued to linger over many Southern California communities Friday as conflagrations tore through the Santa ...
Column: Trump shoots his mouth off as L.A. burns. His claims about fire hydrants don’t hold water
SACRAMENTO — OK, I admit it. I’m biased. I hate it when an opportunistic politician capitalizes on other people’s miseries and ...
These maps show Palisades fire’s rapid spread in first day
The Palisades fire broke out Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. amid dangerously high winds and dry conditions, leaving dry vegetation primed ...
Why hydrants ran dry as firefighters battled California’s deadly fires
As crews have fought the fast-spreading fires across the Los Angeles area, they have repeatedly been hampered by low water ...
Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for devastating California fires
The devastating wildfires that have ravaged Southern California erupted following a stark shift from wet weather to extremely dry weather ...
Karen Bass left L.A. for Africa as wind, fire warnings increased. She returned to a burning city
For the first 24 hours of Los Angeles’ wildfire disaster, Mayor Karen Bass was a constant presence on social media, ...
First U.S. fatality from bird flu reported in Louisiana
A Louisiana resident infected by H5N1 bird flu has died, state authorities there reported Monday, marking the first U.S. death ...
