Donations topped $650 million, and the question looms: How to best use it for fire recovery?
With more than $650 million donated for fire relief, nonprofits are mapping out a strategy to assist in L.A.'s recovery.
The Lancet1d
Health-care system adaptability during wildfire disasters: crucial insights from LA County
The increasing frequency and severity of environmental disasters necessitate robust health-care system adaptation strategies. Recent wildfire events in and around Los Angeles County, CA, USA, are ...
NBC Los Angeles2d
Lack of mechanics, resources leaves dozens of emergency vehicles out of service
Dozens of service emergency vehicles are sitting unused at a maintenance yard in Lincoln Heights, following the $18 million budget cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
aha.org2d
Report analyzes emergency department use during the LA wildfires
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Feb. 6 released a report on emergency department use during the Los Angeles ...
Firehouse2d
Dozens of Los Angeles Fire Vehicles Were in the Maintenance Yard During the Wildfires
"The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair these engines ...
Los Angeles fire victims to be booted from Red Cross shelter to make space for film crews, events
Victims of the Los Angeles fires will have to move out of the Pasadena Convention Center in the coming days so it can return to filming events.
NBC News16d
Thousands told to evacuate after two new blazes start in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation warning for residents in the area at 11:46 p.m. (2:46 a.m. ET Thursday) but later ended the alert at 2 a.m. In addition to the approximately 31,000 ...
EMS118d
Experts warn of toxicity from Los Angeles wildfire ash
LOS ANGELES — Toni Boucher threw up the ... asked Scott McLean, a former deputy chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s communications bureau.
NBC Los Angeles18d
31,000 under evacuation orders in fast-moving Hughes Fire in Castaic
There is no extension to the Evacuation Warning zone at this time," wrote the Los Angeles Fire Department. Evacuations were ordered for the approximately 10-acre fire burning in Sepulveda Pass as ...
New York Magazine18d
These Brands Are Donating Proceeds to Los Angeles Wildfire-Relief Funds
L.A.-based travel-goods brand Cabeau will be donating a portion of all sales this week to the Los Angeles Fire Department. California-based Clare V launched the “Los Angeles Je T’Aime ...
NBC News19d
Los Angeles under dangerous red flag warnings for extreme fire risk again this week
Santa Ana winds will hit the Los Angeles area yet again this week, bringing extreme risk of rapid fire spread as the region continues to tamp out deadly wildfires that ignited under similar ...
ABC722d
Fire officials defend pre-deployment of firefighters before catastrophic LA County fires
Sheila Kelliher of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, explaining that strike teams were in position. The teams are each comprised of five fire trucks and 21 firefighters whose mission is to ...