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New LA museum exhibit honors the Black artistic legacies of Altadena
The free exhibit features generations of Black artists showcasing Altadena’s creative history and endurance, even after the ...
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Looters raise crime by 250% in Altadena, LASD says
deputies have been combing the streets of Altadena since the fire. On Monday while on patrol, they encountered two people trying to take copper and electrical wires from Southern California Edison ...
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These Black Architects Are Helping Rebuild Altadena After the L.A. Wildfires
Carla Flagg remembers the joy of growing up in west Altadena. “We had these great pool parties ... members of the National Organization of Minority Architects’s Southern California chapter, who ...
Los Angeles Times6d
Excavating the burn layer in Altadena
Every archaeologist remembers the first time they came to a layer of blackened dirt while excavating. For me it was at Tel Halif, in southern Israel. I was crouching in a hole; the dig’s ...
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Commentary: Excavating the burn layer in Altadena
Every archaeologist remembers the first time they came to a layer of blackened dirt while excavating. For me it was at Tel Halif, in southern Israel. I was crouching in a hole; the dig’s ...
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Altadena suffered a 'catastrophic failure.' Did unincorporated status hurt fire response?
LOS ANGELES — In the first 24 hours of the Eaton fire, Pasadena's communications director helped activate four different kinds of alerts to keep its residents apprised of evacuation orders ...
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SoCal Edison starts work to remove idle power line in Eaton Canyon
Southern California Edison started work this week ... into how the Eaton Fire started Jan. 7 before spreading into Altadena and burning homes and businesses. Edison raised the possibility in ...
The Hamilton Spectator1d
Left alone by humans, wildlife returns to the Eaton Fire burn area
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Behind the remains of a town scorched by fire, the foothills are lush with new green and filled with birdsong. Wildlife is returning to the Eaton Fire burn area and scientists ...
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A developer plans to rebuild his Altadena home with fireproofing in mind
We’ve been following the rebuilding of Altadena, a community in the Los Angeles area, since the January firestorms that destroyed thousands of homes and structures there. Marketplace’s David ...
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This L.A. photographer is still capturing the ongoing devastation from January’s fires
Eaton Fire survivor Dr. Jacqueline Jacobs, 88, stands for a photo in front of her destroyed home with her daughter Madrid Jacobs-Brown on January 30, 2025, in Altadena, California. Jacobs said she ...
Los Angeles Times4d
Their homes and school burned in the Eaton fire. But these theater kids rise from the ashes
About 60 theater students from Altadena and Eliot Arts magnet schools lost their homes, their stage and their neighborhoods in the Eaton fire. In a story of how deep trauma can be tempered by ...