A children's theater group in Pacific Palisades lost its beloved playhouse to the Los Angeles fires

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Southern California Edison accused over Eaton fire, which killed 17 people and destroyed nearly 10,000 structuresLos Angeles county is suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked January’s deadly Eaton fire.The fire was one of several major blazes that tore through the region starting on 7 January. It killed at list 17 people in the Altadena area of Los Angeles, and destroyed more than 9,400 structures. Continue reading...

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The cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre are also filing similar suits against Southern California Edison

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Paltrow, 52, gave the health update by admitting that she upped her alcohol intake back when the devastating Los Angeles fires were causing devastation.

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The former Los Angeles fire chief ousted by Mayor Karen Bass after the most destructive wildfire in city history is seeking to reclaim her job

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Perhaps the Ozempic was making people light-headed, or the stars felt they should stay silent. Either way, there was a notable lack of politicsThe Oscars ceremony on Sunday night was long and boring, as it has been for a few years, but this year its shortcomings landed differently. Hollywood’s waning influence, which registered most glaringly last month in the large number of American nominees who showed up in London for the Baftas – not something they were inclined to do in better times – gave the ceremony a sense of low-stakes irrelevance that was frankly a relief from the rest of the news cycle. Still, the question lingers as to why the actors and presenters largely, and mercifully in my view, stayed away from mention of Donald Trump.After the devastating forest fires in Los Angeles in January, the classy thing to have done this year would’ve been to cancel or at least radically downsize the Oscars ceremony, but of course no one involved was going to vote for that. Instead, audie...

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Dry pattern seen among entire ‘lower basin’ of the Colorado River, including Arizona and desert cities such as Las VegasDramatic rainstorms earlier this month brought more than 6in of rain to the California mountains – a full month’s worth of rain in little more than a day – but the deluge wasn’t enough to reverse a worsening drought trend that is set to intensify further in the coming weeks and months.Along the iconic Pacific Coast highway in Malibu, where just weeks earlier flames leveled hundreds of oceanside homes, a Los Angeles firefighter was washed out to sea, and later rescued. Continue reading...

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Justin Bieber and Steve Carell laced up their skates along with Hockey Hall of Famers Rob Blake, Mark Messier, Cammi Granato and Jeremy Roenick on Sunday afternoon to support relief funds from the Los Angeles fires

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Mayor Karen Bass said 1,000 available firefighters were not dispatched after flames ignited last month

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Kristen Crowley removed after blaming city for budget cuts, while mayor claimed firefighters weren’t properly deployedSix weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles’s mayor, Karen Bass, ousted the city’s fire chief on Friday following a public rift over preparations for a potential fire and finger-pointing between the chief and city hall over responsibility for the devastation.Bass said in a statement that she was removing Chief Kristin Crowley immediately. Continue reading...

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Kristen Crowley dismissed after blaming city’s budget cuts, while mayor claimed firefighters weren’t properly deployedSix weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles’s mayor, Karen Bass, ousted the city’s fire chief on Friday following a public rift over preparations for a potential fire and finger-pointing between the chief and city hall over responsibility for the devastation.Bass said in a statement that she was removing Chief Kristin Crowley immediately. Continue reading...

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Six weeks after devastating wildfires, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief amid a public rift over preparations for the fires and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall

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A$AP Rocky dived into Rihanna’s arms from the defense table as a clerk read the not-guilty verdict at his trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm on Tuesday, 18 February, in Los Angeles.

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Recent fires that consumed entire Los Angeles neighborhoods underscore a stark lesson -- water utilities generally aren’t designed to respond to the large urban fires growing more common as climate change worsens

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Four months ago, I took an emergency response course. Then the wildfires came, and I realised, in an era of disasters, how vital trained neighbors areKelley McIntosh is the kind of person who gives her friends fire extinguishers as housewarming gifts. In other words, my kind of person: as a climate journalist who’s spent eight years reporting on adaptations critical to life in our burning, storming, fevered world, I’ve been known to gift-wrap prepper items, too. Loved ones have sighed and nodded as they opened solar lanterns, flashlights and emergency radios none of us quite understand how to “crank”.Shockingly for two hypervigilants, neither Kelley nor I had ever actually pulled the pin and shot a fire extinguisher until the day we met last September in Los Angeles. Continue reading...

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