The Tongva’s land burned in Eaton fire. But leaders say traditional practices mitigated damage
The descendants of the Los Angeles Basin’s first people had not had land of their own for nearly 200 years. ...
Tag: Fires
Trump expected to survey Los Angeles-area wildfire damage next week
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump will likely visit the Los Angeles area next week to view the wildfire damage, he said ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory unscathed by Eaton fire, but not its workforce
On Jan. 11, an airborne imaging spectrometer managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory flew over Los Angeles County to survey ...
5 lessons in kindness from outside L.A.’s evacuation zone
The fires have tested but also reinforced my belief that we create beauty from life’s challenges. Here are five lessons ...
Free camps are offering a safe space for kids as L.A. fires cause child-care upheaval
Squeals of joy can be heard from the playground at Eagle Rock Recreation Center. A group of 30 children is ...
California’s FAIR Plan, the home insurer of last resort, may need a bailout after the L.A. fires
The California FAIR Plan Assn., the state’s property insurer of last resort, was born of smoldering ashes — not of ...
‘It’s going to be the Wild West.’ Devastated by fire, Altadena artists vow to rebuild
A week after the devastating Eaton fire tore through Altadena, killing 17, with 24 people missing as of this writing, ...
Los Angeles and the literature of the apocalypse
I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 ...
Fire lessons from the Australian capital, where a 2003 inferno changed everything
The residents of Canberra might know a little about what Los Angeles is going through. Exactly 22 years ago, a ...
Artists’ utopia in ashes: How a little-known ‘misfit community’ called JJU burned down in Altadena
It was an improbable place. An artist collective known as JJU, or John Joyce University, hidden in the foothills of ...
