L.A. Fires: Recovery & Rebuilding
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As temperatures rose this past weekend, so did the wildfire activity. State agency CAL FIRE today reported that over 2,200 firefighters from various agencies are battling major blazes across the Golden State.
The so-called Motor Fire, named after a RV that caught fire last week, caused the closure of Highway 140, which opened at 6:00 a.m.
Officials at Yosemite National Park this afternoon emphasized that it remains open while a wildfire burns outside its borders to the west in Mariposa County.
Fuel-treatment projects around Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead, and Idyllwild, Mt. Baldy Village and Wrightwood, have been completed but it's not enough.
The Department of Public Works argues we must rush to haul out 1.5 million cubic yards of debris behind Devil's Gate Dam. Citizens want an environmental impact statement first. who's right?
A year and a half after one of California's biggest wildfires scorched 250 square miles of the Angeles National Forest, things are getting back to normal.…
The death of two LA County firefighters during the 2009 Station Fire testifies to the dangerous work this agency has undertaken during its first century of valiant service to the region
Since the 1980s or so we've learned that fire is a natural part of many Western landscapes, and that suppressing it can cause more injury to the ecosystem than letting it burn. But that's not true of the desert.
Update, May 4th: A second updating of the committee vote on SB 147: on Monday, May 2, the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic…
L.A.'s weather is nearly perfect – except when it isn't.
AUDIO: Last week - fire. Next week - earthquake, maybe? But it's beautiful now! Correspondent Judy Muller ponders the curious nature of Southern Californians, and posits that our constant state of denial is probably more rational than it seems.
The fire in the Angeles Forest has created an enormous plume of carbon dioxide that stretches across the United States. See a JPL/NASA animation.