‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillisides and canyons even as the fire risk worsen. For a century, the lure of ...
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California: Five dead in Los Angeles wildfires - as new blaze starts near Hollywood Hills
At least five people have died in a wildfire in Los Angeles, officials have said, with firefighters now facing new blazes, including one in the city's famous Hollywood Hills. With firefighters ...
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Fire in Bel-Air frays nerves as red flag weather is set to peak Thursday in Los Angeles
Shortly before 2 a.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department said the fire, which burned 40 acres, had stopped spreading. Officials lifted an evacuation warning for parts of Bel-Air, including homes ...
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NHRA-Affiliated Kalitta Air Has a Connection to Firefighting Effort in Los Angeles
since 1967—does not have its pilots flying over the raging Los Angeles fires ... lead the Southern California effort, is a Kalitta Air client. Kalitta Air does not own or operate any tanker ...
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Here’s How Climate Change Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
As Greta Cazzaniga, a climate scientist at the ClimaMeter and the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute in France, said in a recent press statement, “the Los Angeles wildfires have shown how multiple ...
The New York Times23d
How Los Angeles Dreams Became Kindling
Los Angeles grew as developers pushed further into ... creating a vortex of superheated air that swirled at tornadic speeds. The whirling fire uprooted trees, peeled off rooftops and flipped ...
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Photos show Los Angeles neighborhoods reduced to rubble as deadly wildfires continue to burn
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Parts of Los Angeles are still burning from multiple wildfires that have ravaged over 40,000 acres and killed at least 25 people. More than ...
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Trump floats adding Los Angeles aid to reconciliation bill
President-elect Trump floated the idea Thursday of including federal aid to Los Angeles in the wake of deadly fires as part of a massive reconciliation package, suggesting that doing so would win ...
New York Post23d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...
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Los Angeles air quality improves from wildfires' hazardous levels
(Reuters) - Air quality in wildfire-stricken Los Angeles improved on Thursday from hazardous peaks hit earlier this month, as tiny soot particles that can penetrate the lungs and brain dropped to ...
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Company behind incorrect evacuation alert in Los Angeles says it has added new safeguards
The company behind Los Angeles' emergency alert technology said it has added safeguards to prevent further inaccurate wildfire evacuation alerts from being sent to residents amid deadly ...