The Santa Ana winds that have fueled wildfires for weeks in Southern California finally stopped blowing on Friday, and an unusually long period of dry weather was on track to end in Los Angeles County as a cold storm approached on Saturday. The system was expected to deliver light to moderate rain that will fall … Read more
President Trump repeated falsehoods about California’s firefighting efforts on Friday and blamed Democratic officials for a wide variety of issues affecting the response to wildfires as he toured areas of Los Angeles damaged by the disaster. In a meeting with state leaders in Pacific Palisades, a community that was heavily damaged by fire, Mr. Trump … Read more
President Trump was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Friday to visit communities that have been affected by the recent fires, his first presidential visit to a state from which he has threatened to withhold federal aid, citing what he called water mismanagement. Ahead of his visit, Mr. Trump said in an interview on … Read more
President Trump will take his first trip since returning to the White House on Friday to storm-ravaged North Carolina and California, which is suffering some of the most deadly and destructive blazes in the state’s history. The trip comes as the president has left the question of additional disaster aid for California unsettled. Mr. Trump … Read more
President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state’s Democrats have stubbornly refused to send enough water to Southern California to fight fires, which he attributed to their desire to protect the delta smelt, a threatened species of … Read more
A 20-acre brush fire was spreading on Thursday morning in a part of Los Angeles that is near Interstate 5, the Getty Museum and the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation order after the blaze broke out late Wednesday night, saying that it was burning … Read more
As the Hughes fire exploded in size on Wednesday, people living around Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County weighed the question of whether to stay or go. The danger felt all the more real because of the deadly Eaton and Palisades fires that have been ravaging other parts of the county. Greg Wolf, 64, … Read more
As the first embers of the Eaton fire began showering homes in Pasadena and Altadena, Calif., this month, evacuation orders went out within minutes. But one neighborhood did not get the order to leave for hours, well after some homes there had already caught fire. The consequences appear to have been fatal. Of the 17 … Read more
This is the place where an Anita Baker ballad slips through the speakers and the smell of bacon floats in an irresistible fog. Regulars (and who isn’t?) push through the glass door and sink into a red folding chair hankering for their usual order. The salmon croquette and the catfish are favorites, but the grits … Read more
To truly take in the enormity, it helps to get up close. The Palisades and Eaton fires are roughly 30 miles from each other. I drove to the center of both last week, trying to make sense of how Los Angeles was suddenly transformed. I’ve lived and reported here for more than a decade, and … Read more