Why California Keeps Putting Homes Where Fires Burn
Noozhawk republishes news articles from CalMatters on state and local policy issues that impact Santa Barbara County readers.
Rents rise as refugees from the fires squeeze into L.A.’s tight housing market
The Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed or damaged more than 8,500 homes in an already tight housing market. Experts said the ...
The Atlantic6d
The End of L.A.’s Magical Thinking
“California ... houses. When the Thomas Fire came through in 2017—a worst-case-scenario fire for the region, with wind speeds around 75 miles an hour—Montecito could have lost 450 to 500 ...
Glamour6d
Parenting Through the California Wildfires
Myself, my husband, our seven-year-old daughter Luna, another friend and her son, had fled the California ... fire spread across the Santa Monica mountains, heading toward our house. When I got ...
Los Angeles Times5d
What happened Saturday through Monday, Jan. 18-20: Southern California braces for latest threat of extreme weather
“They’re raging through the houses and communities even affecting ... His dad was chief of the Santa Barbara Fire Department. His grandfather was with the L.A. city fire department.
As LA burns, fleeing families seek the Orange County coastline
The Los Angeles fires have displaced thousands of people, who may now need to relocate to Orange County, the Inland Empire and beyond.
AOL4d
California’s insurer of last resort has potential exposure to LA wildfires of nearly $5 billion and reinsurance of $5.78 billion
The state's FAIR Plan has received 3,600 claims so far since wildfires ravaged the Los Angeles area, with potential exposure totaling nearly $5 billion across the Palisades and Eaton fire zones.
LA's deadly fires have displaced thousands. Where will they go?
There’s still so much unknown around the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire and other Los Angeles area blazes that sparked up last week. The tragic death toll keeps rising, along with the number of destroyed ...
Fox Business6d
Luxury Properties
and urges California leaders to remove real estate ‘red tape.’ A new analysis shows which areas of the U.S. were the hottest markets for luxury vacation homes last year – and some of the ...
$2M California home spared from wildfires is destroyed by landslide
A California home worth around $2 million has been wrecked by a landslide having been left fortuitously unscathed from the ...
AOL4d
When houses are fuel: Why firefighting was no match for a California disaster decades in the making
There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm: When a two-story house is on fire ... found more than 2 million homes in California are in high-fire-risk areas. State lawmakers ...
New York Post5d
California is years behind in implementing a law to make homes more fire resistant
Reeling from destructive wildfires, including the deadliest in California history ... materials within 30 feet (9 meters) of their houses in the 1960s and then expanded the rules to include ...