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Residents of parts of Los Angeles County felt a minor earthquake centered west of Malibu, Calif., on Sunday afternoon. Preliminary estimates showed that the quake had a magnitude of 4.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Within five minutes of the initial impact, aftershocks of magnitude 2.5, 3.0 and 2.8 rumbled in the area, the…
Some losses are incalculable. For Ms. Lavasani, it’s the photo albums of her two daughters, Xena and Rezvon, both now grown, that she mourns the most. She had hoped to save them as the fire drew nearer. “I was so scared of losing those memories,” Ms. Lavasani, 57, said. “All memories — gone.” Tricia Wachtendorf,…
Hundreds of public schoolteachers are among the Southern Californians who lost their homes to raging wildfires in the last week. Some are scrambling to find places to live, even as they hope to return soon to their classrooms to restore some normality for their students — and for themselves. In the Pasadena Unified School District,…
Monument Street, which cuts through the center of Pacific Palisades, tells two starkly different stories of the fire that has engulfed the community. On one side, lots where multimillion-dollar houses once stood are now ash and rubble. On the other, an outdoor shopping mall whose tenants include Chanel, the men’s clothier Buck Mason and an…
The focus this week has been on how extreme winds have fueled the most destructive fires in Los Angeles’s history. But that’s not the only concern. On Friday, even as slowing wind speeds increased hopes that firefighters would contain the blazes, dry vegetation and steep terrain pushed the Palisades fire, the biggest, east, putting a…
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…
