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As soon as an evacuation order was lifted in her neighborhood, Arlynn Page raced back to her charred street in Altadena, Calif., to see what was left of her hillside home. The two houses next door were rubble, but hers was unscathed. Then she went inside. A stinging haze hung in the living room. Her…
“There will be moments where you’re strong and you can see a pathway forward,” he said, “and then there will be moments where you feel the loss, the helplessness and uncertainty and feeling overwhelmed at times.” Even when the evacuation orders are lifted, many families have no home to go back to. Nearly every day…
As fires across Los Angeles County start to wind down, health officials are warning about risks related to water systems in the area. Municipal water pipes damaged by fire can lose pressure, causing them to suck in smoke and harmful chemicals. Those chemicals can make their way through the water system and linger for years….
Scenic and charming and tucked into the foothills, Altadena seemed like a secret just outside the reaches of Los Angeles. “I felt it was like back home — peaceful and calm and a little secluded,” said Shirley Taylor, who was raised in North Carolina and arrived in 1979. The town also offered a striking element:…
It took nearly a decade for Cody Wellema to perfect his dream hat shop. It took one night to reduce it to ash. Early Wednesday morning, the Wellema Hat Company, located on Mariposa Street in the Altadena neighborhood, became one of the innumerable businesses across Los Angeles to be destroyed by this week’s spate of…
The Eaton fire, raging uncontained to the northeast of Los Angeles, raced up Mount Wilson on Thursday, at one point threatening the historic Mount Wilson observatory and a host of antennas and transmitters used for communications and local television broadcasts. The fire, near Pasadena and Altadena, had burned through more than 13,600 acres and destroyed…
The Eaton fire, burning out-of-control near Pasadena east of Los Angeles, was quickly increasing in size on Wednesday morning amid dangerous high winds, according to California fire officials. As of 6 a.m. Pacific, the fire covered more than 2,200 acres, according to Cal Fire, more than double its size a few hours before. It was…
