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January is typically a celebratory time in Hollywood, with A-listers attending awards ceremonies like the Golden Globes while campaigning for Oscar nominations. But as fires continue to ravage Los Angeles, one call to curtail the celebrating came from Jean Smart, the “Hacks” star who won a Globe for best actress in a television comedy on…
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 extreme Santa Ana windstorm that has spread wildfires through Los Angeles abated slightly on Thursday morning, but the calmer winds are likely to be only a brief respite. Todd Hall, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, said that Southern California could face several more wind events — periods of sustained…
Nicole Montanez called four hotels on Tuesday before finding a room where she could safely evacuate with her son and her 4-year-old Havanese, Diego. The dog coughed throughout the 75-minute car ride from Pacific Palisades to Marina del Rey, where the family was taking shelter from the wildfires searing through Los Angeles. “I’ve got to…
Flames were roaring near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles when Marcia Horowitz and her husband rushed to their car, hoping for a quick escape eastward out of the fire zone. But a police officer along the route directed them to head west along Sunset Boulevard, where the couple found themselves stuck in gridlock….
Fast-moving fires on Tuesday forced more than 30,000 people in the Los Angeles area to evacuate their homes, as the skies turned red and fierce winds knocked down trees and power lines. The wind storm was expected to bring even more destruction overnight and into Wednesday. The two large fires — one in the Pacific…
Southern California is extremely dry right now, with huge portions of the region having seen less than a quarter-inch of rain in the last eight months. The landscape is parched and vegetation is withered, making the area dangerously susceptible to burning, an unusual situation for January. “The sort of dryness we’re seeing in a lot…
As strong winds spread the Pacific Palisades fire on Tuesday afternoon, the residents of some of the region’s mansions and desirable homes were forced to evacuate, including some well-known actors and people who work in the entertainment industry. Among the celebrities forced to react quickly was the actor James Woods, who shared videos on social…
After three days of using only radio to communicate with deputies in the field, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said on Friday that it had temporarily fixed the systemwide outage of the computer dispatch system for its patrol vehicles. In a statement released late Friday evening, the department said that its deputies could again…
