Wildfires

A controlled fire test is planned this week in the Pacific Palisades area as fire investigators continue looking into the potential origin of the deadly Palisades Fire.

“Animals in the Aftermath,” an NBCLA documentary, gives an inside look into what it was like to rescue pets displaced by the LA wildfires in January.

Some Southern California residents who lost their homes to this year’s wildfires were surprised when they received a property tax bill recently.

The mayor’s office issued an emergency order Friday aimed at suspending collection of rebuilding fees for Pacific Palisades residents planning to restore their homes destroyed in January’s wildfires. The order, one of three issued this week to reduce rebuilding costs and speed the timeline, directs city departments to “refrain fro...

Wildfire recovery reached a major milestone Thursday in Pacific Palisades when the Army Corps of Engineers began debris removal at the first multi-family residential properties. Initially, only single-family homes were eligible for the Corps debris removal program after the devastating Jan. 7 Pacific Palisades fire. Property owners could either opt...

One Altadena family whose home was destroyed by the Eaton Fire is amazed that bins containing childhood artworks and other precious memories survived. Tracey Leong reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

An Altadena family that lost everything to the Eaton Fire discovered that precious keepsakes from their adult children’s childhoods managed to survive the devastating blaze.

Los Angeles County launched a website that tracks how many rebuild permits have been issued in Pacific Palisades and Altadena following January’s fires.

Altadena residents who are trying to rebuild following the devastating Eaton Fire say they’re still seeing opportunistic thieves loot fire-affected homes and the community.

Southern California Edison started work this week to prepare an idle power transmission line for removal from the area where the deadly Eaton Fire started and rapidly spread in a powerful windstorm in January. The prep work and removal are further steps in the investigation to determine how the second-most destructive wildfire on record in Californ...

Enormous C-130 military planes will soar over Angeles National Forest this week in a training exercise for military pilots learning to fly the modified aircraft in steep terrain to fight wildfires. The behemoth four-engine turboprop military transport planes equipped to fight fires are part of a training class for personnel at Channel Islands Air N...

For the first time since the fire, more than 2,500 students and staff will be back together in person at their new temporary home. 

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles accuse the major home insurers of colluding to limit coverage in high-risk areas across California.