The New York Times11d
No More Palm Trees, and Six Other Ways L.A. Can Protect Itself From Wildfires
Los Angeles has its own problem plant: palms. Many palm species, once they catch fire ... foot perimeter of a building and requires that tree canopies be at least 10 feet away.
Daily Mail25d
Mission: Impossible actor spots man fiddling with a tree outside his mansion before huge flame erupts amid Los Angeles wildfires
A Los Angeles homeowner was left horrified after ... woke up on Monday to reports that someone had tried to start a fire with a palm tree in his neighborhood on Fuller Street around 6:30am. ' ...
ArtReview8d
What Will Los Angeles Become After the Fires?
The devastation of the Altadena and Palisades neighbourhoods this January revealed stark inequalities in the city ...
The Washington Post26d
The gripping story of how Oreo the dog was rescued from the L.A. fires
LOS ANGELES — It was hard to see him through the thick, black smoke — but you could ... flying embers setting lifeguard towers and palm trees on fire, the man wheeled a bicycle through a ...
Los Angeles Times21d
Altadena reopens to reveal devastated homes — but a community still standing
Loma Alta Park, where the public swimming pool once served as a summertime sanctuary for her and other Black residents ... a row of palm trees in his neighbor’s backyard. Los Angeles Fire ...
Mansion Global22d
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
Some 81% of Black households in Altadena own homes, compared with 32% across Los Angeles County ... oranges and lemons scattered around dead trees. Ashen husks of cars and trucks melted into ...
The Atlantic25d
What David Lynch Knew About the Weather
During the early days of COVID, I found myself living in Los Angeles, the city I grew up ... I would drive around just to drive around, the palm trees and sun exactly where they always were ...
New Haven Register17d
L.A. fire victims with CT ties recount devastation and a narrow escape: 'We felt pretty powerless'
The first sign of danger was the color of Pascale's bedroom ceiling, which had turned from white to "pitch-black," he said ... Others affected by the Los Angeles fires include students attending ...
Rolling Stone19d
The Private Firefighters On Call for the Californians Who Can Afford Them
On Tuesday, January 7th, the first day of the Los Angeles Fires ... Santa Anas whip so hard it looks like they’ll pull the palm trees out from the roots. Over the crest, the $10-million view ...
The Washington Post18d
Senate confirms Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
“We have a great secretary of defense,” President Donald Trump told reporters in Los Angeles ... The remaining trees are charred, some have just a few black palm leaves remaining.
Yahoo28d
Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires
Economic losses across Los Angeles County are estimated ... think of wildfires as a rural and white issue, hundreds of thousands of Black people face heightened wildfire vulnerability due to ...
Los Angeles Times22d
Column: How Donald Trump’s second inauguration outdid the cruelty and excesses of his first
wore a black power suit — the better to mourn our democracy — with some bad-ass silver zippers. (Trump, who is expected to visit Los Angeles later this week, claimed with gratuitous cruelty th ...