New York Post19d
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 ...
New York Post20d
Ex-Los Angeles sheriff blasts wokeness crippling city’s wildfire response: ‘Disaster is not the fires, it’s this ideology’
LOS ANGELES – Former high-profile ... The Board of Supervisors cut 1,281 positions in 2020,” he told The Post. “Every single LA City and LA County appointment is made with the most extreme ...
Newsweek22d
Why Fire Lawsuits Against Los Angeles City Will Likely Fail
People who lost their homes in the Southern California wildfires will likely not be able to sue the city of Los Angeles, a trial lawyer has said. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has faced intense ...
The New York Times22d
For Los Angeles, Fires Ramp Up Difficulty of Hosting 2028 Summer Games
The fires that have ripped across the region have presented Los Angeles with a challenge that would test the bandwidth and resources of any city: how to host a 17-day, $7 billion spectacle ...
The Washington Post26d
Who will rebuild Los Angeles? Immigrants.
(Ringo Chiu/Reuters) Watching the fires raze Los Angeles, a city I called home for years ... According to a 2020 report by the American Immigration Council, 43 percent of construction workers ...
ABC News24d
Los Angeles Fire Department budget sustained cuts but saw overall increase
Thousands of firefighters are battling the sprawling wildfires across LA. Amidst confusion around budget cuts affecting the Los Angeles Fire Department while thousands of firefighters are battling ...
Los Angeles Times20d
L.A. City Council passes series of measures to aid recovery from catastrophic fires
Measures adopted by the Los Angeles City Council addressed big issues related to the fires, such as a recovery plan, and more intimate matters, including reuniting people with their pets.
CBS News20d
Los Angeles City Council calls on water utility to explain dry hydrants, empty Santa Ynez Reservoir amid wildfires
Los Angeles leaders ordered an analysis of the city's water infrastructure on Tuesday, a week after the Palisades Fire destroyed thousands of buildings in the coastal community. It comes days ...
Los Angeles Times20d
L.A. City Council moves to bar evictions for unauthorized people and pets amid fire emergency
Los Angeles city officials are seeking to protect some tenants from eviction in the wake of the fires that have ravaged the region and destroyed thousands of homes. In a 15-0 vote Tuesday ...
The New York Times20d
In Parts of Los Angeles, Life Carries On but Is Hardly Normal
On Tuesday, though, the sky over Mid-City, a Los Angeles neighborhood about 15 miles east of where a major wildfire devastated Pacific Palisades, was clear and blue. The air was refreshing and the ...
The Economist27d
Los Angeles against the flames
Palm fronds smouldered. Extreme winds sparked several firestorms across Los Angeles beginning on January 7th. Nine months without measurable rainfall had primed the city to burn. Photograph ...