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City on Fire
WATCH: LA’s Fire Stations Are Falling Apart
Mold, potholes, broken doors, collapsed ceilings. LA’s firefighters live in horrible conditions while battling the most destructive fires in the city’s…
January 18, 2025
Austyn Jeffs
3M
Climate Change Did Not Cause the LA Fires
A scientist says the climate is not broken; we need fossil fuels; and bad policy led to the fires.
January 15, 2025
Emily Yoffe
WATCH: Inside the LA Firefighters’ Base Camp
Over 3,000 first responders live in tents and trailers in the Rose Bowl, where they have fajita dinners, emotional support dogs, and even exclusive LA…
January 15, 2025
Austyn Jeffs
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Letters to the Editor: The Fires Weren’t Inevitable
Three readers respond to the argument that LA was built to burn.
January 13, 2025
The Free Press
WATCH: ‘We Are Operating on Adrenaline, Caffeine, and Donuts’
At LA’s evacuation shelters, volunteers work day and night to help their neighbors with clothes, food, and pet care.
January 13, 2025
Austyn Jeffs
2M
What’s Left of My House
On my street in Altadena, the only things still standing are the chimneys.
January 12, 2025
Meghan Daum
LA Was Built to Burn
Blame whoever you want. But the reality is we built a massive civilization where fire is part of the natural habitat.
January 12, 2025
Leighton Woodhouse
WATCH: Why Is the Santa Ynez Reservoir Empty?
While Southern California experienced a historically dry rainy season, Pacific Palisades’ emergency water supply was bare.
January 11, 2025
Austyn Jeffs
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‘Everything Is Gone’
Eleven dead. Thousands displaced. Entire neighborhoods burned to rubble. Four Angelenos tell us what they lost—and what they’re still holding on to.
January 11, 2025
Peter Savodnik
TGIF: Hellfire
The policies that broke California. Meta’s fact-checkers head to Texas. David Muir cinches his waist. Jimmy Carter’s cliquey funeral. And much, much…
January 10, 2025
Nellie Bowles
Escape from Los Angeles. Plus. . .
The Indians locked out of the American Dream. A defense of Jerry Springer. The women who spoke out about Britain’s grooming gangs before Elon Musk. And…
January 9, 2025
River Page
‘You Can Taste the Fires in the Back of Your Throat’
In the future, there will be a demarcation: before and after this disaster. No one knows what comes next for L.A., writes Peter Savodnik.
January 8, 2025
Peter Savodnik
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