UmairOpinion | Disaster-Ravaged Families Are Begging: Put Schools First
I could feel the anger in Erin Kyle’s voice when I spoke to her last week. She was in the harried process of moving from a hotel to an apartment…
In Visit to Pacific Palisades, Trump Praises Firefighters and Blames Democratic Officials
President Trump repeated falsehoods about California’s firefighting efforts on Friday and blamed Democratic officials for a wide variety of issues affecting the response to wildfires as he toured areas of…
Hughes Fire Burns 10,000 Acres Near L.A.
Firefighters north of Los Angeles were racing on Thursday morning to contain a brush fire that had exploded the day before, quickly burning more than 10,000 acres and forcing the…
Remembering the House on Revello Drive
I kept clicking refresh, looking for the house on Revello Drive. I scanned the Los Angeles County recovery website for a week for any word about whether a house in…
Little Red Hen Coffee Shop, a Go-To Diner in Altadena, Left in Ashes by the Eaton Fire
This is the place where an Anita Baker ballad slips through the speakers and the smell of bacon floats in an irresistible fog. Regulars (and who isn’t?) push through the…
In Car-Loving L.A. After the Wildfires, the Charred Remains of Vehicles Cut Deep
Dozens of vehicles sit abandoned, covered in ash, along a stretch of Palisades Drive near Sunset Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. There’s a pair of black…
Living Through the Fires, and Covering Them
The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger By Somini Sengupta Somini Sengupta is a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles. Often when you’re visiting Los…
The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning with disaster.
How Will L.A. Rebuild? Tubbs Fire Recovery in Wine Country Offers Clues.
Donna and Bob Williamson call the strange souvenirs pulled from the ashes of their home their Museum of Misery. There is the green wine bottle that melted, its glass neck…
How Wildfires Came for Southern California
For 18 years, Nancy Spiller savored “the magic of living in the canyon” high up in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of L.A., where the sun each morning would cast the…
