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Water utilities in Altadena and Pacific Palisades are undertaking an arduous process of repressurizing their underground pipelines, testing for contaminants and attempting to flush them out.
Cal Fire released updated fire hazard maps for dozens of cities and towns in inland Northern California. All but one saw an increase in the number of acres in zones with heightened fire safety regulations.
Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in jurisdictions where the state will apply stricter fire-safety building requirements.
President Biden struggled for years to get the American Climate Corps off the ground after Congress chose not to fund it. On his first day, Trump swiftly killed it with an executive order.
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire’s “very high” fire hazard severity zones, yet a newer approach by an independent company had found Altadena had “severe” wildfire risk.
A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California’s public lands are losing the carbon they’ve locked up from the atmosphere faster than any other state, driven in large part by wildfires.
L.A. County’s first significant storm in more than eight months has already forced the closure of I-5, unleashed mud on roadways, and closed Malibu’s public schools.
Residents who lost their homes in the Palisades and Eaton fires can now sign up for toxic debris removal on the county’s website.
The heaviest rainfall has slowed across Southern California. While the storm caused some mudslide and flooding issues, officials say it was largely beneficial.
