Could goats keep Malibu from burning?
But bringing goats onto public land typically requires environmental review through the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. In Malibu’s case, the city would also need a coastal development ...
‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...
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Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe. As the deadly LA ...
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Calls reporting burning ... fire, where are the embers blowing. … Those are things I would rely on people who are monitoring it” for information. Desperate for more information, both the Morenos and ...
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Lithium batteries
From concerns about evacuating in an electric vehicle, to the challenges of cleaning up lithium-ion batteries, we spoke with experts about how society grapples with worsening disasters largely fueled ...
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Los Angeles Allowed Hillside Homes to Multiply Despite Fiery Past
When the blaze reached the mansions of Bel-Air, thermal heat lifted burning shingles high into ... killing two county firefighters. The 2018 Woolsey fire destroyed more than 1,600 structures ...
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Too little, too late: Residents say they were in the dark as fire spread with no evacuation order
After-action reports and investigations revealed issues with alert systems in other California blazes: in the 2017 Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 people in Santa Rosa; the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 ...
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Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people in Paradise; the Woolsey fire, which started the same day and killed three in Malibu; as well as in Colorado's 2021 Marshall Fire, which destroyed more ...
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L.A. Wildfires: SCE Admits Its Equipment May Have Ignited Hurst Fire North Of Los Angeles
More locally, the deadly Thomas and Woolsey Fires ... A nightly curfew for the burn areas remains in effect from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Checkpoints restricting access to the fire-ravaged Pacific ...
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L.A. Wildfires: Santa Ana winds drive fire risk back up to extreme levels.
The spiking levels underscore the added danger from wildfires when cars, homes, and other structures burn, researchers said ... than refreshing an online fire map, over and over, as you helplessly ...
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This economist survived a wildfire. Now she's taking on California's insurance crisis
They create detailed maps of the burn areas and document ... In Paradise, in Sonoma, in Napa, the Woolsey fire, the houses that survive are those with the post-2008 building code requirements ...