particularly the most destructive natural disasters. After the Woolsey Fire in 2008 that ravaged the beachfront community of Malibu, destroyed 1,000 homes, and forced the evacuation of 250,000 ...

Woolsey was no exception. In Malibu, we witnessed a ragtag group ... Things were becoming clear. Despite the natural cycles of fire in Southern California—despite the intensity of extremely ...

Records show L.A. County missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements that experts say likely would have helped firefighters during the Palisades fire. Some of the long ...

The Palisades Fire has rewritten our story, just as Woolsey did before it ... they’re proof of what makes Malibu truly precious. When disaster strikes, we don’t see strangers; we see family.

Natural disasters and severe weather cost the global economy $417 billion last year, including $154 billion for which insurers were on the hook, according to a new report. Last year was the ...

The harsh reality now is that the still smoldering Palisades Fire and the comparably disastrous Woolsey Fire of a few years ... that feed off the fallout of the natural disasters that periodically ...

“We’re in the middle of a disaster,” Claire said ... survived one historic California wildfire in 2018, the Woolsey fire, which destroyed more than a thousand other nearby homes.

The Palisades fire wreaked significant havoc on the nearby city of Malibu ... Woolsey fire, just half of the 363 single-family homes approved for rebuilding have been completed. That earlier ...

“The fire crisis in California is inseparable from the housing crisis,” said Robert Olshansky, an expert in post-disaster ... Woolsey fire blackened tens of thousands of acres north of Malibu ...

In 1955, the Ventu Park wildfire tore through the canyons above Malibu, burning nearly 14,000 ... This century those hills saw the Woolsey fire, one of the most destructive burns in California ...

The Woolsey Fire eventually grew to about twice the current size of the Eaton and Palisades fires but most of the area it burned was uninhabitated. Silvis, and AP, defined urban areas as those ...