Blaze Burgess

‘There’s literally nothing’: surrounded by destruction, Los Angeles begins to process scale of loss

Returning Pacific Palisades residents were grieving not just homes turned to ash, but memories buried amid the rubble Wildfires had crept close to the Pacific Palisades before. Just in 2018, the catastrophic Woolsey fire wreaked havoc in nearby Malibu. There’d been other close calls: evacuations because of a brush fire in 2019. A blaze chewing…

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California fires live: progress made against some LA blazes but thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’

Palisades and Eaton fires start coming under control as fierce winds ease but forecasters predict another red flag warning for Monday Full report: 11 killed and 10,000 structures destroyed as blazes continue After the fire, the insurance battles: new ordeals to come Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my…

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