When fires swept through Altadena, in Los Angeles County, generational wealth and a place of opportunity for people of color, went up in smoke.
Radio reports reveal the scramble to contain the Eaton fire as it exploded from a 10-acre brush fire to a devastating 14,000-acre blaze that destroyed thousands of homes.
Jason Deach and Mike Griswold — two handymen at the Zorthian Ranch, an artists colony in Altadena — had escaped the flames hours earlier, racing into the smoke, wind howling, buildings burning ...
The Eaton Fire remained at 15% containment Sunday morning, according to Cal Fire. At least 11 people have died.
Firefighters continued working to contain the Eaton Fire that has burned Altadena and northern Pasadena. Here’s how the blaze grew, hour by hour.
Evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings in La Cañada Flintridge: There's a 6 p.m. - 6 a.m. curfew in place for all areas under mandatory evacuation orders and evacuation warnings because of the Eaton Fire, within the Altadena area. There is no curfew in evacuation zones located in the city of Pasadena.
Two handymen escaped the Eaton fire while embers hit their faces. The flames 'came down the hill at 80 miles per hour and cut through a Jeep Wagoneer like a blowtorch.'
Workers at the Mountain View cemetery had unique concerns the night the Eaton fire broke out. The 55-acre expanse may also have spared some homes from the flames.
On Jan. 11, an airborne imaging spectrometer managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory flew over Los Angeles County to survey the damage from the historic fires. It captured images of charred hillsides in Angeles National Forest, devastated neighborhoods in Altadena and — just west of the Eaton fire’s burn scar — the 170-acre JPL campus.
Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities
LA fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.
All the way from Altadena to Huntington Beach, the first wave of wildlife refugees are finding sanctuary from the Eaton fire in the open arms, and pens, of Huntington Beach's Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center.