2025
Sonoma County firefighters and aid workers rally to help Los Angeles in its time of need
It’s been seven years and three months since Annie Barbour lost her Coffey Park house in the Tubbs Fire. On Tuesday afternoon, as fierce winds fed similarly destructive wildfires in Southern California, her phone started blowing up. “You know how close Coffey Park is,” said Barbour, referring to the northwest Santa Rosa neighborhood where over…
Read MoreA Hellscape in All Directions’: The Devastating Fires That Ignited Crisis and Chaos in L.A.
Story by wsj. LOS ANGELES—The fire rose from the bone-dry hills, as so many others have, and then rapidly tore across the coast and hills of one of America’s most famous cities—oblivious to the demographics of the lives it disrupted. It burned mansions in Malibu and low-income housing in Pasadena.
Read MoreA Maui program kept Lahaina families together by paying households to take in fire survivors
Story by abc WAILUKU, Hawaii — The Lahaina home Tamara Akiona shared with 10 people was never quiet, and she loved it that way. Akiona, her husband, uncle, stepdaughter, and her best friend’s family filled the house once owned by her grandparents, with four bedrooms, two living rooms and a spacious backyard. She remembers the…
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