Ravaged by avoidable fires, Los Angeles deserves accountability
Our state deserves leaders who put people before politics and solutions before slogans. May these tragic fires be the final ...
No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage
Widespread destruction from the L.A. fires was inevitable, given the drought and winds. Still, the region could have been ...
How did LA fires start? Key questions about California disaster answered
The fast-moving LA fires that killed at least 10 people and decimated more than 20,000 acres in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu and other areas continue to burn Friday with no end in sight.
Letters to the Editor: Why concrete buildings might not be the answer to fire in California
With fires raging in L.A., some have asked why homes are built with wood instead of concrete. A welding inspector points out ...
A month before fires, L.A. fire chief warned budget cuts were hampering emergency response
The Los Angeles Fire Department's budget was cut by $17.6 million, about 2%, this fiscal year. The fire chief warned last ...
Why Los Angeles was unprepared for fire
In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped ...
Did Mayor Karen Bass really cut the fire department budget? The answer gets tricky
Employee raises and other expenses are expanding the Los Angeles Fire Department's budget. At the same time, the agency has ...
LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning.
Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” according to a local activist.
Los Angeles wildfires: What could have minimised damage in catastrophic LA fires? ’It’s Catch-22’
California Governor Gavin Newsom called for a probe into “loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported ...