Billie Eilish and Green Day kicked off the show with a duet. Joni Mitchell made a rare public appearance. Katy Perry pranced around the stage waving a state flag as she belted the 2010 banger, “California Gurls.” Over almost six hours, on two arena stages in South Los Angeles, more than two dozen of the … Read more
“Is this our get-out-of-jail-free card?,” the cinematographer Gabriel Patay, 40, said he wondered after he and his wife, a documentary producer, lost the home they spent nine years restoring. “We are tied to this property, we are stuck in L.A.,” he has thought. “Should we leave?” Patay is cleareyed that his insurance will not cover … Read more
Rain and cooler temperatures will bring relief to Southern California this weekend, after a prolonged stretch of dry, breezy weather that allowed wildfires to thrive. The parched landscape between Los Angeles and San Diego hasn’t seen any significant precipitation so far this winter, providing plenty of dry vegetation to fuel the fires. A storm system … Read more
Fire crews stopped the progress of a new, 40-acre brush fire that was burning in Los Angeles near Interstate 405, the Getty Museum and Bel-Air early Thursday morning, officials said. The Los Angeles Fire Department had issued an evacuation warning after the blaze, called the Sepulveda fire, broke out late Wednesday in the Sepulveda Pass. … 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
Dozens of vehicles sit abandoned, covered in ash, along a stretch of Palisades Drive near Sunset Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. There’s a pair of black boots beside a gray Subaru Crosstrek. Down the street, a pink backpack with the name Sonya on it has been left in a Tesla Model … Read more
A few years ago, when I was part of a crew fighting a series of large wildfires in California’s wilderness, my bosses told me, “This isn’t normal.” Climate change was making the wildfires bigger, faster and harder to stop. It seemed like only a matter of time before the conditions grew dangerous enough to threaten … Read more
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has postponed the premiere of her new Netflix show, “With Love, Meghan,” because of the California wildfires, the streaming service said in a statement on Sunday. “With Love, Meghan,” is hosted and produced by Meghan, who cooks, gardens and landscapes with different guests in “a heartfelt tribute to the beauty … Read more
Power lines near the Eaton and Palisades fires in the Los Angeles area were on when those blazes started on Tuesday, which energy experts said was concerning because electrical equipment has often ignited infernos during periods of high wind in California and elsewhere. It is not clear what ignited the fires ravaging Southern California, and … Read more
The wildfires that continued to burn through Southern California on Wednesday have gutted a number of local landmarks in some of the most affluent areas of Los Angeles. On Wednesday morning, fire officials estimated that more than 1,000 structures had already been destroyed. The fires carved a destructive path through Pacific Palisades and Malibu, communities … Read more