Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley asked for full-time employees to augment a mostly volunteer brush-clearing crew two years ago.

The devastating fires in Los Angeles are revealing just how deeply ill-prepared the city was for a disaster of such magnitude. While nobody can ever be fully […] ...

in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 11, 2025. LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said she and LA Mayor Karen Bass went on an aerial survey of the devastated areas to see the size, scope and complexity of ...

But critical fire weather conditions will continue through Wednesday evening, Los Angeles County Fire ... LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said. Powerful 70 mph winds haven’t happened yet ...

Criticisms of diversity programs from the right often ignore the facts of disasters on the ground, writes Josh Marcus ...

The city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.

The goal of LA Rises is to raise more funds through private donations to supplement local and state resources for rebuilding ...

Mayor Karen Bass and newly named Chief Recovery Officer Steve Soboroff are expected to meet on Monday near the Palisades Fire ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said LA Rises, a new private-sector philanthropic initiative, will work with the city, county and the state ...

It’s now been nearly a month since both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire exploded in Los Angeles and its suburbs, killing 29 people, destroying or damaging more than 18,000 structures, ...

Friends and relatives remember the lives lost in the Eaton and Palisades fires, the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history.

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...