For many first-generation Latinos like myself, the idea of a wildfire threatening your house once felt like something straight out of a movie. That was until last January. Unlike most American towns ...
From left, firefighter Adrian Chairez and Fire Youth Academy students Taylor Flynn, Valerie Valentin and Lena Caris pull Captain Robert Warrick and fellow student Felix Valencia, in Watsonville, ...
A new study found that climate change has driven a surge of “societally disastrous” wildfires over the last four decades, with 43% of the most costly events occurring in the last 10 years. Reading ...
Floods, fires and failures in basic infrastructure have become the backdrop of countless lives, while our government is simultaneously betraying us. In July, the EPA confirmed plans to dismantle its ...
Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ensure that staffing, to whatever extent, is utilized most effectively. A ...
In 2025, local volunteers became an essential lifeline for families grappling with disasters across Southern California. From ...
This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. L.A. County’s emergency response failures during January’s deadly fires mirrored many problems identified after ...
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Gavin Abundis watched as firefighter Adrian Chairez demonstrated how he uses pulleys and harnesses to rappel down buildings. “You’ve probably seen it in the movies where they’re ...