How weather driven by climate change helped fuel the Southern California fires
Al Roker talks to climate scientist Alexander Gershunov about the conditions that made the L.A. wildfires so devastating.
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How the LA fires of 2025 became the perfect firestorm
The Los Angeles (LA) wildfires began with with the Palisades fire, which erupted the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades as a mere brush fire. Evacuation orders were issued for that fire and by ...
The LA fires have a shocking price tag — and we’ll all have to pick up the tab
The destruction of some of the state’s most expensive mansions in communities like Pacific Palisades received much of the attention, but the fires also displaced people in predominantly middle- and ...
LA’s Devastating Wildfire Crisis Didn’t Start With a Spark – It Started With Rain
A perfect storm of climate extremes set the stage for devastating wildfires in Los Angeles in early 2025. After two ...
NASA Satellites Show How California’s Wildfire Crisis Was Years in the Making
The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...
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Here’s how much lumber Southern California will need to rebuild after the wildfires
The Palisades, Eaton and Hurst wildfires in Southern California have destroyed more ... writing the weekly Commodities Corner column since 2005.
Explainer: What is FEMA, US emergency agency under fire from Trump?
President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management ...
GOP leaders want to put conditions on California wildfire aid. Is there precedent for that?
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the feds shouldn’t give California aid unless the state changes its water policy.
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Costs from California wildfires will be 'astronomical' as million-dollar homes burn
California and author of Burn Scars, a history of fire suppression in the U.S. published last September. Get weather and fire alerts via text:Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location ...
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'This is your Hurricane Katrina.' Why California wildfires are being compared to 2005 storm.
Stoked by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, the California wildfires that broke out Jan ... were two of the city's hardest hit communities in 2005. In New Orleans, “a lot of people had flood ...
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Some residents allowed to return home as crews make progress on L.A.-area fires
Along with mansions and wealthy enclaves, California ... losses in the wildfires file claims. Based on a bulletin the state’s insurance commissioner issued in September, FAIR Plan policy ...