Fox Business22d
LA officials were warned about budget cuts to fire department: 'Someone will die'
Then just last month, LA city council member Traci Park noted, "We have million dollar rigs sitting at the yard with no mechanics to fix them." CALIFORNIA FAMILY LOSES BUSINESS IN WILDFIRE ...
CNN22d
A ‘dangerously unacceptable breakdown’ led to errant or delayed evacuation warnings in LA. The rest of the US isn’t immune
“This is a concern that people should have all over the country – be you in earthquake country or fire country or floods or hurricanes,” said former Los Angeles city controller Ron ...
KTLA23d
L.A. City Council members propose moratorium on evictions, rent increases amid wildfires
(KTLA) — Los Angeles City Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martínez have introduced a motion to protect working-class residents from threats of eviction and rent increases amid ...
NBC Los Angeles23d
Did city, LAFD prepare enough for Palisades Fire? Here's what we know
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough to prepare in the days ahead of the deadly Palisades Fire. The fire department did not hold ...
Newsweek23d
Fire-Hit LA Residents to Get Help Under New Recovery Measures
The Palisades fire, determined to be the most destructive in Los Angeles city history, erupted last Tuesday. The same day, the Eaton and Hurst fires also started, totaling almost 40,000 acres ...
Daily Mail23d
LA Mayor Karen Bass pictured mingling at a Ghana cocktail party when the LA fires exploded
Bass was quickly met with criticism after she arrived back in the United States, as city officials slammed her for slashing the Los Angeles Fire Department budget by over $17 million in her latest ...
CBS News24d
Los Angeles City Council calls on water utility to explain dry hydrants, empty Santa Ynez Reservoir amid wildfires
Los Angeles leaders ordered an analysis of the city's water infrastructure on Tuesday, a week after the Palisades Fire destroyed thousands of buildings in the coastal community. It comes days ...
Los Angeles Times24d
L.A. City Council passes series of measures to aid recovery from catastrophic fires
Measures adopted by the Los Angeles City Council addressed big issues related to the fires, such as a recovery plan, and more intimate matters, including reuniting people with their pets.
LAist24d
LA council delays vote on proposal to pause evictions and rent increases due to fires
Support LAist by giving now. The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a host of emergency responses to the past week’s historically destructive wildfires. But the ...
Los Angeles Times24d
L.A. City Council moves to bar evictions for unauthorized people and pets amid fire emergency
Los Angeles city officials are seeking to protect some tenants from eviction in the wake of the fires that have ravaged the region and destroyed thousands of homes. In a 15-0 vote Tuesday ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation24d
LA fires inch towards Olympic venues but 2028 Games 'not impossible'
When Los Angeles brought home the Olympic flag from Paris at last year's closing ceremony, the host-city-in-waiting did so in style. Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise leapt from a plane ...
New York Post24d
LA Mayor Karen Bass appointee who oversaw fire department was put on leave over alleged city hall bomb threat
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ deputy mayor — whose purview included oversight of the city’s fire department — was placed on administrative leave last month after the FBI raided his home in ...