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LA’s Fire Recovery Czar Privately Tells Hollywood Execs To Hold On to Their Properties, Promising City Investments Will Triple Their Palisades Property Values
Developer Steve Soboroff also warned them not to use city water to 'bathe your baby' in burned-out areas—no matter what the water department says
January 31, 2025
Los Angeles Commander Orders Firefighters To Abandon Burning Homes As Department Struggles With Staffing Shortages
‘We have no additional companies to give you,’ dispatcher tells engine leader
January 16, 2025
Fact-Checking Just Like Firefighting, Fact-Checkers Claim
FACT CHECK: Shut up, you insufferable nerds
January 13, 2025
Newsom, Bass, and Sacramento: How the LA Fires Became a Conflagration
What in the blazes were they thinking?
January 13, 2025
Two Months Before Deadly Blazes, LA Fire Chief Said She Needed More Firefighters—Then Karen Bass's Admin Scrubbed the Memo
'In many ways, the current staffing, deployment mode, and size … have not changed since the 1960s,' wrote Kristin Crowley
January 12, 2025
WATCH: Newsom Passes the Buck, Bass Won't Talk Budgets, and Biden Celebrates His Great-Grandchild: How Democrats Are Responding to the LA Infernos
'The good news is: I'm a great-grandfather as of today!' Biden said at wildfire presser
January 9, 2025
Los Angeles Fire Chief Warned That Mayor Karen Bass’s Budget Cuts Limited Wildfire Response: 'At Risk of Reduced Effectiveness'
Bass cut $7 million from overtime, then allocated $5 million for electric fire vehicles
January 9, 2025