L.A.’s fire chief generated controversy — and fierce loyalty — while the city burned
Critics of Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley — a gay woman leading an overwhelmingly male department — call her a “DEI ...
Inside L.A.’s desperate battle for water as the Palisades fire exploded
When fire hydrants ran dry, the L.A. Department of Water and Power struggled to get water where needed. The utility's ...
Los Angeles Fire Chief Faces Calls for Resignation
As a disastrous fire continues to burn on the city’s west side, some are calling Chief Kristin Crowley to account: Why wasn’t ...
L.A.’s wellness community is healing a fire-torn city with free massages, meditations, sound baths
L.A.'s Wellness community is assembling to support wildfire victims and firefighters in a sprawling citywide effort.
Could better brush clearance have helped slow the spread of the Palisades fire?
As the Palisades fire raged, critics blamed overgrown vegetation for driving its spread. But some scientists and fire ...
Weather service issues its most severe fire warning for parts of L.A. area as winds pick up
The most serious red flag fire weather warning has been issued by the NWS for swaths of L.A. and Ventura counties starting ...
Frustrations grow as L.A. fire victims demand to get back into their decimated neighborhoods
As firefighters contended with another day of dry, windy conditions, residents continued to confront their losses and the ...
Officials investigating whether Southern California Edison equipment ignited Hurst fire
Investigators are looking into whether downed Southern California Edison equipment ignited the Hurst fire near Sylmar, ...
Inside the dramatic air attack that saved Brentwood and Encino from the surging Palisades fire
A squadron of firefighting aircraft and convenient water supplies were key in saving Brentwood and Encino from the growing ...
L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t
Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in scores of extra firefighters and equipment in the hours before ...
L.A. police are grappling with a new challenge: fire duty
Since the outbreak of the Palisades fire, LAPD officers have suddenly found themselves thrust into an unfamiliar yet pivotal ...
Edison under scrutiny for Eaton fire. Who pays liability will be ‘new frontier’ for California
The L.A.-area fires may pose the first big test of California’s wildfire fund, which was set up in 2019 to protect utilities ...