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County fire or sheriff’s officials appear to have failed to set the alerts in motion, leaving many west Altadena residents to flee as flames and embers closed in.
Scientists worry there will be immediate harm from the Trump administration’s latest federal workforce cuts, which hit NOAA and the National Weather Service.
L.A.’s Runyon Canyon Park has partially reopened to the public after it was closed for weeks following the Sunset fire.
Temperatures in much of SoCal will continue to rise Wednesday and Thursday, but officials say it doesn’t mean winter has passed. Cold, wet storms are forecast for the weekend and next week.
Downtown L.A. was about 14 degrees above normal Sunday, reaching 82 degrees. Temperatures could climb into the 90s by Wednesday in the coasts and valleys.
97-year-old woman left alone in senior facility with Eaton fire outside her window. What went wrong?
Senior living facility resident Dorothy Benesh, 97, was left behind in the Eaton fire. Her son says she would have died if he hadn’t been nearby to rescue her.
When flames bellowed up out of Eaton Canyon on the evening of Jan. 7, west Altadena did not, at first glance, seem to pose the most urgent challenge for evacuations. So why did it take so long for evacuation alerts to go out?
In March 2023, a snowboarder suffocated to death under deep snow at Heavenly Mountain Resort in Tahoe. His wife has sued the resort, claiming it made conditions more dangerous and failed to warn visitors or increase patrols.
Crews have rushed to clear out basins designed to catch mud, rocks and other debris from tumbling into neighborhoods as damaging rains approach.
The unique water management design will probably remain active for several weeks. ‘It’s definitely worth seeing,’ one official said.
