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Bad actors “are at the ready, just waiting to jump in order to sow discord” in the “information stream,” Wineburg said. “Crisis sells. Mischief sells. Anger sells.”[aside postID=news_12021150 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for just a few examples of misinformation that’s been spreading online during the L.A. fires and how to spot these kinds of fake postings and false claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Ready and waiting in order to create chaos’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The spread of misinformation is especially heightened during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change\u003c/a>, which has become highly politicized. The L.A. fires have shown how this dynamic can play out in California — a state that’s already a target for right-wing media and influencers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People immediately perceive California as on the left side of the political spectrum,” Wineburg said. “There are going to be people on the other side — not all people, there are trolls on both sides — and they’re ready and waiting in order to create chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">A Republican user with over 100,000 followers on social media platform X\u003c/a> — whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change\">algorithm and owner, billionaire Elon Musk,\u003c/a> have favored \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump-election-x-twitter\">right-leaning posts\u003c/a> — claimed last week that California turned away fire trucks from Oregon because of their emission levels, writing that “California is a JOKE. Get out while you can.” The Oregon State Fire Marshall subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump-election-x-twitter\">debunked this claim\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/caplesweb/status/1878109017089728854?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">adding that\u003c/a> Oregon’s firefighters had arrived on Jan. 9 “and are working around the clock to help our neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the L.A. fires, AI-generated photos and videos were already rampant on platforms like Facebook and X, which has also \u003ca href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/15/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checks-verification-disinformation-propaganda-russia-china-trust-safety/\">de-emphasized news in its platform\u003c/a> since Musk’s acquisition. Last week, fake images and videos made with AI and purporting to depict the blazes — including imagery of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hollywood-sign-la-wildfires/\">Hollywood sign apparently burning\u003c/a> — began to proliferate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These images have often driven a particular political narrative. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lmatsakis/status/1877071716679025039?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">A widely circulated AI image\u003c/a> that the poster claimed was created using X’s own Grok AI tool depicted people in dark clothing in a burning suburban area, with the poster predicting that Pacific Palisades homes would be “picked clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/shayan86/status/1877537853372039481?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">recent viral post\u003c/a> presented local news footage of Black families attempting to save their household items and described them as “looters.” Accusations of looting often erupt during times of disasters and crisis, and while officials say that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/more-than-20-arrested-palisades-eaton-fire-zones-looting-concerns-sheriff/\">arrested nearly 30 people\u003c/a> for looting, police presence and reporting during disasters have a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/suhaunah/status/1877570458310099428?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">complicated history\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://cretscmhd.psych.ucla.edu/nola/volunteer/EmpiricalStudies/Race%20and%20media%20coverage%20of%20hurricane%20katrina%20-%20analysis,%20implications,%20and%20future%20research%20questions.pdf\">especially for Black and brown people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Politically-motivated claims\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021798/why-right-wing-pundits-point-fingers-at-diversity-efforts-for-los-angeles-wildfires\">Right-wing media and commentators have been quick to blame\u003c/a> the devastation wrought by the fires on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='wildfire' label='More Wildfire Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk was one of those circulating screenshots of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s four-year-old ‘racial equity action plan,’ claiming the agency “prioritized DEI over saving lives and homes” and that “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877224004680843539\">DEI means people DIE\u003c/a>.” Musk provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/01/09/elon-musk-and-more-right-wing-critics-blame-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-for-la-wildfires-with-little-evidence/'\">no evidence for this claim\u003c/a>, and, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right\">the word “woke\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/21/dei-language-conservatives-baltimore\">DEI” has been a phrase claimed by right-wing commentators\u003c/a> to lodge baseless claims against institutions they perceive as left-leaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misinformation has also come directly from politicians themselves. According to \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113793724958051185\">President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 8 social media post\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom had “refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water” to flow into the parts of California currently affected by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom responded that such a declaration does not exist, and the BBC confirmed it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj3yk90kpyo\">not able to find such documents\u003c/a>, although a Trump spokesperson told BBC that the incoming president was referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html\">Newsom opposing Trump’s plans in 2020\u003c/a> to divert water from Northern California to the southern parts of the state. Newsom’s team at the time said it would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html\">further endangered a species of fish\u003c/a>, and experts said it was unrelated to the current water available for firefighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Trump pushing some of the misinformation about wildfires, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021435/trumps-misinformation-la-fires-fuels-concerns-over-future-disaster-aid-california\">some California leaders are worried\u003c/a> about the incoming president’s willingness to disperse aid to the state in future disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">\u003c/a>How can I spot misinformation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the most pernicious aspects of misinformation online is how anyone can be susceptible — and guilty of spreading it too, even inadvertently. 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We need to develop a skill set for dealing with an information stream where it is difficult to tell what’s true or false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wait before sharing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said patience is key, especially if you are unsure of a video, post, or image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the post is depicting something momentous, he said users should wait for experts “who will verify whether a video can be trusted or whether it should be distrusted.” In many extreme cases, misinformation has fanned the \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">flames of racism, xenophobia, \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/\">real-life organized violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you have the best intentions, spreading a faulty post can hurt people. A \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> investigation found that a QAnon conspiracy theory about furniture company Wayfair trafficking children resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/\">serious trauma for the young people\u003c/a> whose images were used in those posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get a second opinion\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A gut check with a trusted friend, colleague, or family member \u003ca href=\"https://www.rtdna.org/preventing-the-spread-of-misinformation-and-disinformation\">may be useful\u003c/a> in figuring out if a post seems valid — or at least can alert you that it might not be all it seems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remember that Gen-Z is susceptible, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said the idea of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/future/trends/digitalnatives\">“digital native”\u003c/a> — someone who’s used technology and social media from a very young age — has been “completely overturned for at least a decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that somehow Gen-Z and today’s young people are savvy at determining what is true and what’s fictitious — that itself is a fiction,” he said. Wineburg cited \u003ca href=\"https://purl.stanford.edu/cz440cm8408\">a 2021 study\u003c/a> he conducted of 3,446 high school students where they had to find out the source of a video they were shown. Only three students were able to correctly discern the video was from \u003ca href=\"https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/sam-wineburg-how-improve-american-students-fact-checking-skills\">a Russian disinformation campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent that we teach these skills in school, which we are not presently doing,” he said. Well-meaning teachers and adults may see young people are comfortable with their devices, and assume that is accompanied by the ability to “discern the information that that device produces,” Wineburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s simply not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More reliable fact-checkers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://Factcheck.org\">Factcheck.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/\">Snopes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check\">BBC Verify\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Verification resources and best practices:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">First Draft News\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/?tab=collections\">Civic Online Reasoning\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.uvic.ca/fakenews/how-it-spreads#:~:text=False%20news%20can%20spread%20through,misinformation%20and%20perpetuate%20the%20cycle.\">University of Victoria’s library\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk was one of those circulating screenshots of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s four-year-old ‘racial equity action plan,’ claiming the agency “prioritized DEI over saving lives and homes” and that “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877224004680843539\">DEI means people DIE\u003c/a>.” Musk provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/01/09/elon-musk-and-more-right-wing-critics-blame-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-for-la-wildfires-with-little-evidence/'\">no evidence for this claim\u003c/a>, and, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right\">the word “woke\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/21/dei-language-conservatives-baltimore\">DEI” has been a phrase claimed by right-wing commentators\u003c/a> to lodge baseless claims against institutions they perceive as left-leaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misinformation has also come directly from politicians themselves. According to \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113793724958051185\">President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 8 social media post\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom had “refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water” to flow into the parts of California currently affected by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom responded that such a declaration does not exist, and the BBC confirmed it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj3yk90kpyo\">not able to find such documents\u003c/a>, although a Trump spokesperson told BBC that the incoming president was referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html\">Newsom opposing Trump’s plans in 2020\u003c/a> to divert water from Northern California to the southern parts of the state. Newsom’s team at the time said it would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html\">further endangered a species of fish\u003c/a>, and experts said it was unrelated to the current water available for firefighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Trump pushing some of the misinformation about wildfires, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021435/trumps-misinformation-la-fires-fuels-concerns-over-future-disaster-aid-california\">some California leaders are worried\u003c/a> about the incoming president’s willingness to disperse aid to the state in future disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">\u003c/a>How can I spot misinformation?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the most pernicious aspects of misinformation online is how anyone can be susceptible — and guilty of spreading it too, even inadvertently. Here’s how to catch common indicators of false information and bad-faith posting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don’t think ‘I can always tell’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said users should let go of the idea that “they can immediately tell” whether an online image or video is AI-generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI generation — once mocked for its inability to produce details like \u003ca href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/808778/ai-image-generators-finally-figured-out-hands/#:~:text=The%20newest%20version%20of%20the,full%20set%20of%20five%20fingers.\">anatomically correct human fingers\u003c/a> or shadows — has gotten more sophisticated. Someone with a photo editing program like Photoshop could further polish these images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider the source\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For bad actors, “their goal is to dispense information that keeps us online, so more ads can be shown to us,” Wineburg said. “And the information that keeps us online is anger, chaos, crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested that users wait before interacting with a post and sift through the comments to see what people are saying about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check the organization that is posting the content, and look for \u003ca href=\"https://guides.law.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1255722&p=9200578\">any sources for their information\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html\">X users can purchase “blue check marks\u003c/a>,” so a blue check alone isn’t proof of reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do some digging\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/reverse-images/home\">Google’s reverse image search\u003c/a> can be a \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">quick way\u003c/a> to see where a photo has been used on the internet, for example, if an image purporting to show a person during the L.A. fires is, in fact, an archive image from another year entirely. However, keep in mind that Google prioritizes its own AI results at the top of the page. Those results have been proven to sometimes be \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-overviews-96e763ea2a6203978f581ca9c10f1b07\">unreliable, inconsistent\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/google-ai-overview-search-magic-wand/\">even inappropriate\u003c/a>, so it’s best if you actually visit the source through the links provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that technology is going to solve a problem that technology has created gets us into trouble every time we go down that particular path,” Wineburg said. “What we need is to develop human technologies. We need to develop a skill set for dealing with an information stream where it is difficult to tell what’s true or false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wait before sharing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said patience is key, especially if you are unsure of a video, post, or image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the post is depicting something momentous, he said users should wait for experts “who will verify whether a video can be trusted or whether it should be distrusted.” In many extreme cases, misinformation has fanned the \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">flames of racism, xenophobia, \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/\">real-life organized violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you have the best intentions, spreading a faulty post can hurt people. A \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em> investigation found that a QAnon conspiracy theory about furniture company Wayfair trafficking children resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/\">serious trauma for the young people\u003c/a> whose images were used in those posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get a second opinion\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A gut check with a trusted friend, colleague, or family member \u003ca href=\"https://www.rtdna.org/preventing-the-spread-of-misinformation-and-disinformation\">may be useful\u003c/a> in figuring out if a post seems valid — or at least can alert you that it might not be all it seems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remember that Gen-Z is susceptible, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineburg said the idea of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ala.org/future/trends/digitalnatives\">“digital native”\u003c/a> — someone who’s used technology and social media from a very young age — has been “completely overturned for at least a decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that somehow Gen-Z and today’s young people are savvy at determining what is true and what’s fictitious — that itself is a fiction,” he said. Wineburg cited \u003ca href=\"https://purl.stanford.edu/cz440cm8408\">a 2021 study\u003c/a> he conducted of 3,446 high school students where they had to find out the source of a video they were shown. Only three students were able to correctly discern the video was from \u003ca href=\"https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/sam-wineburg-how-improve-american-students-fact-checking-skills\">a Russian disinformation campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incumbent that we teach these skills in school, which we are not presently doing,” he said. Well-meaning teachers and adults may see young people are comfortable with their devices, and assume that is accompanied by the ability to “discern the information that that device produces,” Wineburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s simply not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More reliable fact-checkers:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://Factcheck.org\">Factcheck.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/\">Snopes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check\">BBC Verify\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Verification resources and best practices:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">First Draft News\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/?tab=collections\">Civic Online Reasoning\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.uvic.ca/fakenews/how-it-spreads#:~:text=False%20news%20can%20spread%20through,misinformation%20and%20perpetuate%20the%20cycle.\">University of Victoria’s library\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While firefighters battle \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">unprecedented blazes in Southern California\u003c/a>, Democratic state leaders are bracing for a different fight ahead: a potential clash with the administration of President-elect Donald Trump over disaster aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after the deadly fires broke out amid bone-dry conditions and hurricane-force winds, Trump posted more than half a dozen social media statements \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1877223963706749279\">blaming\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom and local leaders for the fires. Trump \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1877036452883714341\">falsely tied the urban fires to state water policies\u003c/a> and environmental protections for the Delta smelt, a tiny, endangered fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative politicians and commentators, including billionaire Elon Musk, piled on, blaming forest management and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5252757/california-wildfires-dei-diversity-influencers-firefighters\">DEI initiatives.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s not just the rhetoric that concerns state leaders: In Trump’s first term, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">refused to send\u003c/a> disaster relief funds to California until an aide showed him how many people voted for him in one of the impacted areas. Last fall, Trump made a direct threat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/13/trump-threat-california-water-rules-00179151\">saying\u003c/a> if Newsom wouldn’t send more water to Central Valley farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While President Joe Biden pledged federal support over the past week, discussions are underway between Trump and congressional Republicans about \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">tying future fire aid to debt ceiling\u003c/a> negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle aged man in a hat and casual clothes walks next to a fire chief with smoke billowing behind them on a city street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, tours the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn in Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2025. Newsom is appealing to President-elect Donald Trump to visit the LA fires. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking Friday on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-gavin-newsom-on-the-la-fires/id1192761536?i=1000683563807\">\u003cem>Pod Save America\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast, Newsom noted that Trump has politicized other disasters. During his presidential campaign last fall, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-response-north-carolina/index.html\">spread misinformation\u003c/a> about the FEMA response to Hurricane Helene, which led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fema-adjusts-hurricane-recovery-efforts-in-north-carolina-after-workers-threatened\">threats against federal workers\u003c/a>. Newsom said Trump has also threatened to withhold aid from other states and territories over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not just done it here in California. He’s done it in states all across the country. I mean, he did it in Puerto Rico. He did it even in Utah. He did it, I think, in Connecticut. In other states, Georgia,” Newsom said on the podcast. “And so the rhetoric is very, very familiar, and it’s increasingly acute. And obviously, we all have reason to be concerned about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom and other state leaders are trying to walk a fine line, hoping that Trump’s bluster is just that. In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191\">letter\u003c/a> to Trump on Friday, Newsom invited Trump to come to California, recalling how he and Trump toured the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread misinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as Newsom tries to maintain a measured response, California Democrats are preparing for the worst. Democrats in the legislature appeared to reach an agreement to earmark $50 million in state funds for legal responses, including $25 million for the state attorney general’s office to fight the incoming administration in court if it tries to do things like withhold disaster aid. The other $25 million would be for legal aid for undocumented immigrants and legal advocacy centers that support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced he would expand the special session he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016262/california-legislature-special-session-build-firewall-against-trump\">convened for “Trump-proofing” California\u003c/a> to include $1 billion for wildfire response and recovery in Los Angeles and another $1.5 billion to prepare for future firestorms and other natural disasters, a move \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/billessayli/status/1877140844718817591\">some Republican lawmakers\u003c/a> have been calling for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized Trump’s response to the Los Angeles fires as “disappointing and unfortunate,” noting that there’s a long American tradition of presidents and government rallying around communities suffering from natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden delivered huge amounts of aid to Texas when it suffered from its hurricane to Florida when it suffered from Hurricane Milton. And that’s the appropriate thing to do. He didn’t stop and say, ‘Wait a second, is this a red state?’” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1734px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg 1734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreman Mihlhauser (left) works with Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation operate the camp to train incarcerated hand crews to fight fires around Los Angeles and California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta supports another \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/22/trump-california-emergency-aid-newsom-00184799\">proposal\u003c/a> floated by Newsom to create the state’s own FEMA-like fund to help support emergency response and recovery efforts in case Trump refuses to provide aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we won’t ever need it,” Bonta said. “But because doubt has been cast as to whether federal disaster relief funding will be forthcoming, we can’t be caught flat-footed. We should be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the governor’s budget released last week, Newsom proposed putting $4.5 billion in state funds aside for “economic uncertainties” related to the Trump administration, though that amount pales in comparison to what recovery for these fires could cost. Newsom said the number is likely to grow in his May revision of the budget, depending on what happens in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in California argue that Democrats are overreacting. Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R–Corona) said Trump won’t “punish the people of California for the inactions or incompetence of the leaders of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1920x1358.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and State Sen. Alex Padilla while surveying damage during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“President Trump and Congress are going to do everything in their power to get the help that’s needed to Californians as quickly and as expeditiously as possible,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said Trump will, however, use his leverage to pressure California to change policies he disagrees with. He brushed off concerns that Trump was spreading misinformation by conflating issues in his social media posts last week, like when he blamed conservation efforts to protect the Delta smelt for problems getting water to the Los Angeles fires despite the water supply being completely independent from the Delta system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said Democrats refused to build more water storage facilities and haven’t invested enough in wildfire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office counters these criticisms, noting that under his tenure, the state has invested in tackling the wildfire crisis like never before, including nearly doubling the number of firefighters and other staff at CalFIRE; committing billions of dollars to wildfire and forest resilience initiatives; expanding the state’s aerial firefighting fleet; investing in technology, including drones and artificial intelligence to help spot and fight fires; and more than doubling prescribed burns between 2021 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke fills the sky over Pasadena due to several wildfires burning in the Los Angeles, California, area on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Essayli said the state hasn’t done nearly enough to clear dead trees and remove fire fuel through actions like prescribed burns — and he blames state environmental laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Wara, an energy and climate expert at Stanford University who has often been critical of the state’s preparation and response to wildfires, said Newsom has made unprecedented investments in fire prevention and response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have we done as much as I would like? No. But we have done more under the Newsom administration than anyone in the United States has ever done anywhere to try to reduce wildfire risk after the (2017 and 2018) wildfires,” he said. “The firefighting force in Southern California is the best wildland-urban interface firefighting force in the world, bar none. No one else even compares. The aviation resources they have are the best in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021954 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192438759-scaled.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, none of that matters when fighting blazes like the ones that decimated communities last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when the winds are blowing as fast as they’re blowing — you cannot fight that fire. You have to wait until the conditions change or the fire runs out of fuel,” Wara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wara said there’s blame to go around, though much of it is not at the feet of current elected officials. He cited land use decisions made decades ago about building in places like the Pacific Palisades, an incredibly dry year in Southern California and an unusually strong offshore wind event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wara expressed anger at the misinformation spread by Trump and his allies about the cause of the fires, particularly as the fires continue to rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really important that we push back against politicization of disaster aid no matter where the disaster is,” he said. “The reality is that the odds of these catastrophic events are going up because of climate change, and Trump will have to confront them in his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if this is the way he chooses to, it’s going to be worse for the country. But more than that, it’s going to be worse for the vulnerable people that are left after the disaster. And I just find that really disheartening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, Bonta and Wara all acknowledge that they don’t know how Trump will actually respond once he takes the oath next week. But in perhaps one glimmer of hope, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a close Trump ally and vocal critic of Newsom and California policies, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1878552261363978276\">announced he was sending\u003c/a> firefighters, engines and other equipment to California — and said he was praying for the victims, first responders and the entire state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s not just the rhetoric that concerns state leaders: In Trump’s first term, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">refused to send\u003c/a> disaster relief funds to California until an aide showed him how many people voted for him in one of the impacted areas. Last fall, Trump made a direct threat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/13/trump-threat-california-water-rules-00179151\">saying\u003c/a> if Newsom wouldn’t send more water to Central Valley farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While President Joe Biden pledged federal support over the past week, discussions are underway between Trump and congressional Republicans about \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">tying future fire aid to debt ceiling\u003c/a> negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle aged man in a hat and casual clothes walks next to a fire chief with smoke billowing behind them on a city street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, tours the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn in Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2025. Newsom is appealing to President-elect Donald Trump to visit the LA fires. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking Friday on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-gavin-newsom-on-the-la-fires/id1192761536?i=1000683563807\">\u003cem>Pod Save America\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast, Newsom noted that Trump has politicized other disasters. During his presidential campaign last fall, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-response-north-carolina/index.html\">spread misinformation\u003c/a> about the FEMA response to Hurricane Helene, which led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fema-adjusts-hurricane-recovery-efforts-in-north-carolina-after-workers-threatened\">threats against federal workers\u003c/a>. Newsom said Trump has also threatened to withhold aid from other states and territories over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not just done it here in California. He’s done it in states all across the country. I mean, he did it in Puerto Rico. He did it even in Utah. He did it, I think, in Connecticut. In other states, Georgia,” Newsom said on the podcast. “And so the rhetoric is very, very familiar, and it’s increasingly acute. And obviously, we all have reason to be concerned about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom and other state leaders are trying to walk a fine line, hoping that Trump’s bluster is just that. In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191\">letter\u003c/a> to Trump on Friday, Newsom invited Trump to come to California, recalling how he and Trump toured the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread misinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as Newsom tries to maintain a measured response, California Democrats are preparing for the worst. Democrats in the legislature appeared to reach an agreement to earmark $50 million in state funds for legal responses, including $25 million for the state attorney general’s office to fight the incoming administration in court if it tries to do things like withhold disaster aid. The other $25 million would be for legal aid for undocumented immigrants and legal advocacy centers that support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced he would expand the special session he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016262/california-legislature-special-session-build-firewall-against-trump\">convened for “Trump-proofing” California\u003c/a> to include $1 billion for wildfire response and recovery in Los Angeles and another $1.5 billion to prepare for future firestorms and other natural disasters, a move \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/billessayli/status/1877140844718817591\">some Republican lawmakers\u003c/a> have been calling for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized Trump’s response to the Los Angeles fires as “disappointing and unfortunate,” noting that there’s a long American tradition of presidents and government rallying around communities suffering from natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden delivered huge amounts of aid to Texas when it suffered from its hurricane to Florida when it suffered from Hurricane Milton. And that’s the appropriate thing to do. He didn’t stop and say, ‘Wait a second, is this a red state?’” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1734px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg 1734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreman Mihlhauser (left) works with Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation operate the camp to train incarcerated hand crews to fight fires around Los Angeles and California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta supports another \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/22/trump-california-emergency-aid-newsom-00184799\">proposal\u003c/a> floated by Newsom to create the state’s own FEMA-like fund to help support emergency response and recovery efforts in case Trump refuses to provide aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we won’t ever need it,” Bonta said. “But because doubt has been cast as to whether federal disaster relief funding will be forthcoming, we can’t be caught flat-footed. We should be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the governor’s budget released last week, Newsom proposed putting $4.5 billion in state funds aside for “economic uncertainties” related to the Trump administration, though that amount pales in comparison to what recovery for these fires could cost. Newsom said the number is likely to grow in his May revision of the budget, depending on what happens in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in California argue that Democrats are overreacting. Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R–Corona) said Trump won’t “punish the people of California for the inactions or incompetence of the leaders of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1920x1358.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and State Sen. Alex Padilla while surveying damage during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“President Trump and Congress are going to do everything in their power to get the help that’s needed to Californians as quickly and as expeditiously as possible,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said Trump will, however, use his leverage to pressure California to change policies he disagrees with. 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Republicans largely criticized those investments as they called on Newsom to put wildfire-related spending through the same fast-tracked process allowed in a special session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process allows bills passed by the Senate and Assembly to take effect more quickly than under the Legislature’s normal rules, which require a supermajority vote to speed up the enactment of a law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is organizing a Marshall Plan to help Los Angeles rebuild faster and stronger — including billions in new and accelerated state funding so we can move faster to deliver for the thousands who’ve lost their homes and livelihoods in these firestorms,” Newsom said in a statement. “To the people of Los Angeles: We have your back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal includes $1 billion for emergency response and cleanup, for which the administration anticipates reimbursement from the federal government. 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Some of the animals have the same kinds of injuries humans have when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">wildfire\u003c/a> tears through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing burns,” she said. “We’re seeing singed paws. We’re seeing singed whiskers. We’re seeing smoke inhalation problems. We had one dog come in that appeared to be a dark gray dog, and after we gave it a bath, we realized the dog was a white dog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_6374-scaled-e1736794158484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roxie, the originally white dog, recuperates from injuries sustained during the Eaton Fire on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roxie, the white dog-turned-gray, recuperated in the intensive care unit but did not lift her head to greet human visitors. She lay on her bedding, exhausted and numb, her belly an angry pink from burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search and rescue teams go out every day now, collecting injured wildlife but also pets left behind when the Eaton fire began, and people fled in a panicked rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there will be some animals that miraculously survived,” DuVernet said. “Especially cats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-058.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-058-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-058-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-058-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-058-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-058-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kitten, found with its mother and siblings after the wildfire, drinks water at Pasadena Humane in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every animal, dead or alive, is scanned for microchips containing contact information for the owners. Pasadena Humane’s chief veterinarian, Dr. Maria Pyrdek, said microchipping is among the short list of “musts” for pet owners who want their animals to survive any type of natural disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make sure you have ID. Make sure your pet is vaccinated so that when they’re coming into large, stressful situations, they also will not be at risk of getting diseased as well,” Dr. Pyrdek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021720 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192478140-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pasadena Humane has 150 employees, including five full-time veterinarians, working around the clock. Since the Eaton fire began, scores of volunteers have also turned up to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers greeted people pulling up in their vehicles to donate food, bowls, blankets, carriers, and so on and then sorted through the items as they piled up in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt that I need to help in some way,” said Connor McPherson of Pasadena, who has a chihuahua terrier mix of his own at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the next few weeks, some evacuees will come back to claim their pets. Others will have to rely on Pasadena Humane to hold on to their loved ones until things are sorted out. Still, other animals will need new homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re reading this and thinking about donating kibble or other items, consider sending money instead. Right now, animal rescuers say, the immediate need is for medicines and unusual food supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A growing force of firefighters moved into the Los Angeles area Monday as more powerful winds were expected to trigger new wildfires that could set back the recent progress made in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wildfires-southern-california-c5826e0ab8db965cb2814132ff54ee6f\">containing blazes\u003c/a> that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews and equipment arrived from across the U.S., and from Canada and Mexico — including water trucks and planes that drop firefighting chemicals — as the National Weather Service warned that the coming days could become “particularly dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It predicted \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-things-to-know-winds-f93d41dc901e352b63e86ab67ef7790e\">severe fire conditions\u003c/a> will last through Wednesday, with wind gusts in the mountains reaching 65 mph (105 kph). The most dangerous day will be Tuesday, warned fire behavior analyst Dennis Burns at a community meeting Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/NWSSPC/status/1878766783991324736\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relative calm Sunday allowed some people to return to previously evacuated areas. But even as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-terms-contained-acc21dd0f6824df715caff1e46918eda\">containment increased\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-pacific-palisades-wildfires-los-angeles-4b67b7f29d0d6eb7321a52ef60c17d60\">worst of the fires\u003c/a>, more bad news emerged from the ashes: The death toll surged late Sunday with an update from the Los Angeles County medical examiner. At least 16 people were missing, a number authorities said was also likely to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fierce \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/santa-ana-winds-california-0b2c68cdc29a7c354238c6ccc09c830c\">Santa Ana winds\u003c/a> have been largely blamed for turning the wildfires sparked last week into infernos that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-pacific-palisades-wildfires-los-angeles-4b67b7f29d0d6eb7321a52ef60c17d60\">leveled entire neighborhoods\u003c/a> around the nation’s second-largest city where there has been no significant rainfall in more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fire-devastation-climate-change-santa-ana-winds-a46e2bb6785b1e325f6076fb22c8fcc5\">eight months\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than a week, four fires around the nation’s second biggest city have ignited more than 62 square miles (160 square kilometers), roughly three times the size of Manhattan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of that destruction has been from the Eaton Fire near Pasadena and the Palisades Fire, in a wealthy enclave along the Pacific Coast. Firefighters have made progress on both fronts in recent days, with the Eaton Fire roughly one-third contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/CAgovernor/status/1878862045346730217\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The returning high winds could trigger explosive growth of the existing fires and new outbreaks in areas untouched so far, creating new challenges for firefighting crews already stretched thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone said 70 additional water trucks arrived to help firefighters fend off flames spread by renewed gusts. “We are prepared for the upcoming wind event,” Marrone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire retardant dropped by aircraft will act as a barrier along hillsides, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of artists, musicians, and friends in Topanga Canyon banded together to stop fires breaking out in new areas by turning off gas lines and propane tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We helped hopefully save a couple houses and we put out a couple spot fires, Derek Mabra said as he drove along the coast looking at the destruction. “It’s complete and total devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents check on their homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some residents have been able to return to their homes to survey the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Orlandini, who lost his hardware store in Altadena, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-pacific-palisades-pasadena-altadena-inequality-63ea76d186740359f7f5dd188896354f\">a hard-hit neighborhood\u003c/a> next to Pasadena, said his home of 40 years survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tuesday night we didn’t sleep at all because we figured the house was gone,” he said Sunday as he recalled the moment the fires spread to his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole time I was thinking, I don’t know what I’m going to find when I get back here and after 40 years, you know, you got a lot of stuff you forget about that would disappear if the house burned down. So we’re thankful that it didn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen of the 24 deaths were attributed to the Eaton Fire and eight to the Palisades Fire, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/CountyofLA/status/1878615068923121902\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve people were listed as missing within the Eaton Fire zone and four were missing from the Palisades Fire, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, LA city Fire Chief Kristin Crowley urged people to stay away from scorched neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still active fires that are burning within the Palisades area, making it extremely, extremely dangerous for the public,” Crowley said Sunday. “There’s no power, there’s no water, there’s broken gas lines, and we have unstable structures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials warned the ash can contain lead, arsenic, asbestos and other harmful materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 50,000 people in Los Angeles County remained under evacuation orders, with more than 700 residents taking refuge in nine shelters, Luna said. Officials said most of the orders in the Palisades area were unlikely to be lifted before the red flag warnings expire Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please rest assured that first thing Thursday we will begin talking about repopulation,” Marrone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1878864244927783170\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Firefighters continue to battle flames\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Crews from California and nine other states are part of the ongoing response that includes nearly 1,400 fire engines, 84 aircraft and more than 14,000 personnel, including newly arrived firefighters from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters over the weekend managed to fight back flames in Mandeville Canyon, home to Arnold Schwarzenegger and other celebrities near Pacific Palisades not far from the coast, where swooping helicopters dumped water as the blaze charged downhill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1878855287412789580\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Arrests for looting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Looting continued to be a concern, with authorities reporting more arrests as the devastation grew. Those arrested included two people who posed as firefighters going into houses, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Michael Lorenz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California National Guard troops on hand to guard properties, Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on X: “California will NOT allow for looting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Historic cost\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The fires that began Tuesday just north of downtown LA had burned more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wildfire-structure-damage-3f319dfaa36e583c06c8d49bd835084e\">12,000 structures\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-possible-causes-6112488f835e45f53c67d4d03d7a1e4f\">No cause\u003c/a> for the largest fires was determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AccuWeather’s early estimates suggest the fires could be the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">costliest ever\u003c/a>, topping $250 billion including what’s to come in the next days.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding will be a challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom issued an executive order Sunday aimed at fast-tracking rebuilding by suspending some environmental regulations and ensuring that property tax assessments were not increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to let people know that we have their back,” he said. “We want you to come back, rebuild, and rebuild with higher quality building standards, more modern standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that she had spoken with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration and expected that he would visit the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ramer reported from Concord, New Hampshire. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:20 p.m. February 4:\u003c/strong> Since his Jan. 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders that target the rights of transgender youth. Among them include \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/6-ways-trumps-executive-orders-are-targeting-transgender-people\">halting the use of federal money to fund gender-affirming services for trans people\u003c/a> under 19 years old, and withholding federal funds from schools that assist students in \u003ca href=\"https://library.nshealth.ca/TransGenderDiverse/SocialTransition\">socially transitioning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 31 press conference, California State Senator Scott Wiener announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025068/sf-leaders-vow-to-protect-transgender-students-after-latest-trump-threat-to-withhold-funding\">San Francisco’s intention to expand on state protections for transgender residents\u003c/a> in response to Trump’s executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2022, I authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107\">Senate Bill 107\u003c/a> to basically create a sanctuary state or a shield for trans folks and their families and their medical providers who are being criminalized,” said Wiener. “We are actively looking at how to strengthen and expand that law to protect folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is very powerful, but we’re going to do whatever we can,” he said. “But California has a lot of power, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/08/culture-wars/\">some California school boards\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/08/culture-wars/\">enacted policies\u003c/a> that required teachers to notify families if a child identifies as transgender, nonbinary, or if the student wishes to go by another name in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as of Jan. 1, a new state law bans schools from enacting these policies — meaning that teachers can no longer be required to inform families that their student identifies as a gender or pronoun other than what’s on their school records. This law, however, does not apply to private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ advocates stress that schools are crucial environments for young people to have\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trans-students-should-be-treated-with-dignity-not-outed-by-their-schools\"> the freedom to explore their identity\u003c/a> — and describe the rules that alert parents about gender or name changes as “\u003ca href=\"https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf\">forced outing policies\u003c/a>.” The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf\">LGBTQ+ caucus\u003c/a> argues that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools\">the policies are\u003c/a> “enacted without regard for whether doing so would likely threaten and/or harm the safety of the child,” especially when students live in a home that is unaccepting of their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this new law, “the state of California is trying to ensure [students’] safety,” said Gael Isaiah Lala-Chávez, the executive director of San Francisco LGBTQQ+ organization\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\"> LYRIC\u003c/a>. ‘’They’re giving them their control to be able to share at their own leisure — when they are ready with their families and their loved ones — and not feel like they are at risk of being outed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a trans or questioning young person who wants to know more about your new rights and privacy as a student in California, read on to see what advocates like Lala-Chávez say about the bill — and what resources are available to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What does the bill do?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Why is this law coming into effect?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What if I think my rights are being violated?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">What should I do if I still feel unsafe? Where can I find support?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What does the bill do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools\">American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California\u003c/a>, the California Education Code gives K–12 public school students the right to be out — that is, “open about your identity and to be yourself at school” — and to be referred to by their preferred pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-education-code/title-1-general-education-code-provisions/division-1-general-education-code-provisions/part-1-general-provisions/chapter-2-educational-equity/article-3-prohibition-of-discrimination/section-2203-effective-112025-employees-shall-not-disclose-pupils-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-or-gender-expression#:~:text=2024%20Legislative%20Session-,Section%20220.3%20%2D%20%5BEffective%201%2F1%2F2025%5D%20Employees,be%20required%20to%20disclose%20any\">Assembly Bill 1955,\u003c/a> takes an extra step, prohibiting\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/yr24rel37.asp\"> K–12 school officials\u003c/a> from putting a rule in place that would “require an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person” without the student’s consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers can still talk to their parents,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/12/job-training/\">a December press conference\u003c/a>. “What [a school] can’t do is fire a teacher for not being a snitch. I don’t think teachers should be gender police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law bans \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1955\">any of the following educational bodies\u003c/a> in California from making or enacting these policies:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>School districts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>County offices of education.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charter schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>State special schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Members of the governing board or body of those educational entities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This means that this bill does not apply to private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law provides a layer of protection that organizers like Lala-Chávez say trans students need, especially \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/08/project-2025-anti-trans-policies-impact-families/\">in the face of the incoming administration\u003c/a>. President-elect Donald Trump has already promised to remove Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors, and Project 2025 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">the detailed policy agenda for the next Republican presidency authored and supported by Trump allies\u003c/a>, former and current Trump staffers and Vice President-elect JD Vance — proposes \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/project-2025-lgbtq-rights\">rolling back regulations that ban discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and trans status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the results of the elections, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\"> positioned themselves as legal opponents\u003c/a> to Donald Trump’s incoming presidency, to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">protect California values\u003c/a>.” “Right now, I’d say we are to some degree grateful that we are in California,” said Lala-Chávez. “I’m hoping that withholds a lot of the challenges that we’re going to be facing in the next couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU SoCal has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools\">a thorough guide about your rights as a public school student\u003c/a>, including if you have the right to start an LGBTQ+ advocacy group in school or how you can officially change your pronouns in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Why is this law coming into effect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1955 at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://translegislation.com/\">anti-trans legislation\u003c/a> continues to rise around the United States. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024\">its reputation as being friendlier to LGBTQ+ communities\u003c/a> than other states, California has not been immune to such measures, with cities like \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/082723.Complaint.pdf\">Chino enacting name-change policies\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016463/how-anti-trans-politics-loomed-over-san-jose-states-volleyball-season\">a pending lawsuit at San José State University\u003c/a> over trans women participating in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2024 study by the Trevor Project found that in following years, where some states passed anti-trans laws aimed at minors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006633/more-trans-teens-attempted-suicide-after-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-study-shows\">suicides increased as much as 72%\u003c/a> among transgender and gender nonconforming teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>What if I think my rights are being violated?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to prohibiting schools from requiring teachers to notify parents of their child’s gender identity or name preferences, the bill will also require schools to develop and update school resources for LGBTQ+ students — such as ways to contact national and local queer organizations, trained counselors or social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if a student still thinks that their rights are potentially being violated — for example, if they feel they are at risk of being outed against their will — Lala-Chávez said students should notify school leadership. They also suggested that advocacy organizations like\u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/\"> Equality California\u003c/a> may be able to help in such situations, if a student reaches out directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people also “definitely have every right and opportunity” to contact their elected officials, Lala-Chávez added. KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\"> a step-by-step guide\u003c/a> on how to contact your representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can also submit concerns and complaints to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cp/\"> California State Education Department\u003c/a> — which\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cp/uc/\"> can be anonymous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>What should I do if I still feel unsafe? Where can I find support?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill bans schools from forcing teachers to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender. But teachers — who sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf\">can be safe confidants\u003c/a> for LGBTQ+ students if their relatives are not — can still provide support and resources to trans students. Lala-Chávez said it was important for students to have strong relationships with adults and educators that they feel comfortable with, especially if the students feel like they are at risk at home. Such adults could include a counselor or a trusted teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014337/what-can-trans-folks-do-to-prepare-for-another-trump-administration\"> a guide for trans people\u003c/a> on how to prepare for the upcoming administration, which includes resources, organizations and hotlines they can reach out to. When reaching out to one of these organizations by phone or online, make sure you are in a private part of your house — or someone outside, where you are physically safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/resources/\">SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.posimages.org/support\">Positive Images Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-transgender-community-services?_gl=1*1cgn943*_ga*MjI1MTYwNTY4LjE3MzA0MDEzMzI.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..\">San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com/\">San Francisco Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Community Health Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/transgender-support\">Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">Lyric Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transguide\">UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">TransFamily Support Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/\">The Trevor Project\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://translifeline.org/\">Trans Lifeline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In some circumstances — especially when it comes to physical safety — young people may need to look up shelters and mental health clinics and be familiar with their rights in these spaces. Lala-Chávez said if you are feeling physically unsafe, some young people may consider calling \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/reporting/report-abuse/child-protective-services\">Child Protective Services\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.1800runaway.org/\">National Runaway Safeline\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12019618,news_12015590,news_12016463\"]Lala-Chávez also emphasized thinking and talking out your feelings, and “find[ing] your own community, whether it’s other members of your family, other neighbors or family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also recommended “journaling, prioritizing your emotional well-being by things that you love to do, whether it’s sports or arts or various things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Lala-Chávez affirmed that organizations and groups like theirs are “going to try and do whatever we can to protect you and to ensure that you continue to be a child and learn” — especially in times where anti-trans rhetoric and legislation is rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to be easy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:20 p.m. February 4:\u003c/strong> Since his Jan. 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders that target the rights of transgender youth. Among them include \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/6-ways-trumps-executive-orders-are-targeting-transgender-people\">halting the use of federal money to fund gender-affirming services for trans people\u003c/a> under 19 years old, and withholding federal funds from schools that assist students in \u003ca href=\"https://library.nshealth.ca/TransGenderDiverse/SocialTransition\">socially transitioning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 31 press conference, California State Senator Scott Wiener announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025068/sf-leaders-vow-to-protect-transgender-students-after-latest-trump-threat-to-withhold-funding\">San Francisco’s intention to expand on state protections for transgender residents\u003c/a> in response to Trump’s executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2022, I authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107\">Senate Bill 107\u003c/a> to basically create a sanctuary state or a shield for trans folks and their families and their medical providers who are being criminalized,” said Wiener. “We are actively looking at how to strengthen and expand that law to protect folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is very powerful, but we’re going to do whatever we can,” he said. “But California has a lot of power, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/08/culture-wars/\">some California school boards\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/08/culture-wars/\">enacted policies\u003c/a> that required teachers to notify families if a child identifies as transgender, nonbinary, or if the student wishes to go by another name in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as of Jan. 1, a new state law bans schools from enacting these policies — meaning that teachers can no longer be required to inform families that their student identifies as a gender or pronoun other than what’s on their school records. This law, however, does not apply to private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ advocates stress that schools are crucial environments for young people to have\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trans-students-should-be-treated-with-dignity-not-outed-by-their-schools\"> the freedom to explore their identity\u003c/a> — and describe the rules that alert parents about gender or name changes as “\u003ca href=\"https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf\">forced outing policies\u003c/a>.” The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf\">LGBTQ+ caucus\u003c/a> argues that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools\">the policies are\u003c/a> “enacted without regard for whether doing so would likely threaten and/or harm the safety of the child,” especially when students live in a home that is unaccepting of their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this new law, “the state of California is trying to ensure [students’] safety,” said Gael Isaiah Lala-Chávez, the executive director of San Francisco LGBTQQ+ organization\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\"> LYRIC\u003c/a>. ‘’They’re giving them their control to be able to share at their own leisure — when they are ready with their families and their loved ones — and not feel like they are at risk of being outed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a trans or questioning young person who wants to know more about your new rights and privacy as a student in California, read on to see what advocates like Lala-Chávez say about the bill — and what resources are available to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What does the bill do?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Why is this law coming into effect?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What if I think my rights are being violated?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">What should I do if I still feel unsafe? Where can I find support?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What does the bill do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools\">American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California\u003c/a>, the California Education Code gives K–12 public school students the right to be out — that is, “open about your identity and to be yourself at school” — and to be referred to by their preferred pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-education-code/title-1-general-education-code-provisions/division-1-general-education-code-provisions/part-1-general-provisions/chapter-2-educational-equity/article-3-prohibition-of-discrimination/section-2203-effective-112025-employees-shall-not-disclose-pupils-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-or-gender-expression#:~:text=2024%20Legislative%20Session-,Section%20220.3%20%2D%20%5BEffective%201%2F1%2F2025%5D%20Employees,be%20required%20to%20disclose%20any\">Assembly Bill 1955,\u003c/a> takes an extra step, prohibiting\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/yr24rel37.asp\"> K–12 school officials\u003c/a> from putting a rule in place that would “require an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person” without the student’s consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers can still talk to their parents,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/12/job-training/\">a December press conference\u003c/a>. “What [a school] can’t do is fire a teacher for not being a snitch. I don’t think teachers should be gender police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law bans \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1955\">any of the following educational bodies\u003c/a> in California from making or enacting these policies:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>School districts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>County offices of education.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Charter schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>State special schools.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Members of the governing board or body of those educational entities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This means that this bill does not apply to private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law provides a layer of protection that organizers like Lala-Chávez say trans students need, especially \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/08/project-2025-anti-trans-policies-impact-families/\">in the face of the incoming administration\u003c/a>. President-elect Donald Trump has already promised to remove Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors, and Project 2025 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">the detailed policy agenda for the next Republican presidency authored and supported by Trump allies\u003c/a>, former and current Trump staffers and Vice President-elect JD Vance — proposes \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/project-2025-lgbtq-rights\">rolling back regulations that ban discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and trans status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the results of the elections, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\"> positioned themselves as legal opponents\u003c/a> to Donald Trump’s incoming presidency, to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">protect California values\u003c/a>.” “Right now, I’d say we are to some degree grateful that we are in California,” said Lala-Chávez. “I’m hoping that withholds a lot of the challenges that we’re going to be facing in the next couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU SoCal has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-student-rights-k-12-california-public-schools\">a thorough guide about your rights as a public school student\u003c/a>, including if you have the right to start an LGBTQ+ advocacy group in school or how you can officially change your pronouns in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Why is this law coming into effect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1955 at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://translegislation.com/\">anti-trans legislation\u003c/a> continues to rise around the United States. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024\">its reputation as being friendlier to LGBTQ+ communities\u003c/a> than other states, California has not been immune to such measures, with cities like \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/082723.Complaint.pdf\">Chino enacting name-change policies\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016463/how-anti-trans-politics-loomed-over-san-jose-states-volleyball-season\">a pending lawsuit at San José State University\u003c/a> over trans women participating in sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2024 study by the Trevor Project found that in following years, where some states passed anti-trans laws aimed at minors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006633/more-trans-teens-attempted-suicide-after-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-study-shows\">suicides increased as much as 72%\u003c/a> among transgender and gender nonconforming teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>What if I think my rights are being violated?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to prohibiting schools from requiring teachers to notify parents of their child’s gender identity or name preferences, the bill will also require schools to develop and update school resources for LGBTQ+ students — such as ways to contact national and local queer organizations, trained counselors or social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if a student still thinks that their rights are potentially being violated — for example, if they feel they are at risk of being outed against their will — Lala-Chávez said students should notify school leadership. They also suggested that advocacy organizations like\u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/\"> Equality California\u003c/a> may be able to help in such situations, if a student reaches out directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people also “definitely have every right and opportunity” to contact their elected officials, Lala-Chávez added. KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\"> a step-by-step guide\u003c/a> on how to contact your representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can also submit concerns and complaints to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cp/\"> California State Education Department\u003c/a> — which\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cp/uc/\"> can be anonymous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>What should I do if I still feel unsafe? Where can I find support?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill bans schools from forcing teachers to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender. But teachers — who sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf\">can be safe confidants\u003c/a> for LGBTQ+ students if their relatives are not — can still provide support and resources to trans students. Lala-Chávez said it was important for students to have strong relationships with adults and educators that they feel comfortable with, especially if the students feel like they are at risk at home. Such adults could include a counselor or a trusted teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014337/what-can-trans-folks-do-to-prepare-for-another-trump-administration\"> a guide for trans people\u003c/a> on how to prepare for the upcoming administration, which includes resources, organizations and hotlines they can reach out to. When reaching out to one of these organizations by phone or online, make sure you are in a private part of your house — or someone outside, where you are physically safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/program/resources/\">SF LGBT Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.posimages.org/support\">Positive Images Santa Rosa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/get-transgender-community-services?_gl=1*1cgn943*_ga*MjI1MTYwNTY4LjE3MzA0MDEzMzI.*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTczMTU0OTQ4OS4zLjAuMTczMTU0OTQ4OS4wLjAuMA..\">San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com/\">San Francisco Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyon-martin.org/\">Lyon-Martin Community Health Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/transgender-support\">Oakland LGBTQ Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">Lyric Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transguide\">UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">TransFamily Support Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/\">The Trevor Project\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://translifeline.org/\">Trans Lifeline\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In some circumstances — especially when it comes to physical safety — young people may need to look up shelters and mental health clinics and be familiar with their rights in these spaces. Lala-Chávez said if you are feeling physically unsafe, some young people may consider calling \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/reporting/report-abuse/child-protective-services\">Child Protective Services\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.1800runaway.org/\">National Runaway Safeline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>With photographs by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">Beth LaBerge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wildfires in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021693/firefighters-race-to-contain-los-angeles-wildfires-with-menacing-winds-forecast-to-return\">Altadena, Pacific Palisades\u003c/a>, Sylmar and the greater Los Angeles area continue to burn and the damages have yet to be fully assessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians have seen their share of wildfires, and journalists in the Bay Area have developed a checklist for wildfire reporting out of experience and necessity. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835231/firefighters-battled-blazes-while-their-own-homes-were-threatened\">SCU Lightning Complex fires of 2020\u003c/a> hit all over the San Francisco Bay Area, so any previous sense of psychological security that wildfires don’t happen at a mammoth scale in “urban” areas was destroyed for me, personally speaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the L.A. fires are of a different magnitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen something like this before, but I’ve never seen anything like this before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena resident Herb Wilson, 67, walks with his dog, Rosie, to survey the home he shares with his wife, Loyda. Wilson holds two UPS pins, top left, from his career with the company that Loyda found in their home after it was destroyed in the Eaton Fire. The two pins were among the few items they found at home. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have friends and family members who live in each of the affected areas, or lived there growing up, before they moved elsewhere in California. They tell me they feel like a part of them has been erased. They worry their private memories will fade on them, especially if they never digitally recorded certain sights and have lost print photographs and physical memorabilia. Then there are the sounds and smells that one can get only by being in a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021019/la-fires-threaten-california-insurance-market-stability-housing-costs\">insurance companies\u003c/a> will want passports and birth certificates; what fire victims want from the past is much more personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, we’ve all had our heads in the sand, saying after every terrible event, and there have been so many, “Now is the time we get serious about refreshing our emergency response plans, our building codes, our zoning ordinances, our housing and insurance markets.” This happens year after year after year. I want to believe the Palisades and Eaton fires will be enough to force us to get serious, but years of reporting on our failures to get serious make me skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021781\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-800x343.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-1020x438.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-1536x659.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-1920x824.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire destroyed buildings along Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke fills the sky over Pasadena due to several wildfires burning in the Los Angeles, area on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Lopez (left), an Altadena resident, and his friend Frank Alcaraz flag down drivers to stop for free water and supplies in Pasadena, on Jan. 9, 2025, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area days earlier. Lopez’s house survived the fire, but he said many of his neighbors’ homes did not.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most heartening things about covering the aftermath of a wildfire is seeing the community come together. People are terribly sorry to lose their homes, their pets, their belongings. But they’re also sorry to lose their neighbors and that sense of community you have when you know who’s next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks, months, years to come, the neighborhoods as people have known them, will not go back to what they were before. Some families will be unable to rebuild for financial reasons, often because the current owners inherited the house from their parents or grandparents, who bought the house when it was much, much cheaper than it is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021323\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of homes (above and below) in Altadena, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some families will be able to rebuild, but that will involve months or years of construction while they live somewhere else. Many families will find that rent is so expensive in L.A. County that they simply have to move elsewhere to have a place to live in the short to long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-800x344.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-1020x439.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-1536x660.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-1920x826.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena resident Taylor Williams, 17, holds a Santa mug that she found in the home she shared with her family after it was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I feel their grief so deeply. I get to channel my sympathy into stories I share with the rest of the country, and that allows me to approach this grief clinically, like a doctor or an engineer, for now. I don’t want my personal grief to get in the way of being of service for others. But at some point, when the neighborhood schools, churches, cafes, art galleries, pizza joints stop smoldering, when I can stop checking the wind speeds and humidity levels in the air, the grief will come knocking again. ‘Hey, we need to talk.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bunny figurines sit on a shelf among the burned remains of The Bunny Museum in Altadena, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021661/3-things-that-folks-facing-los-angeles-fires-can-do-from-a-fellow-california-wildfire-survivor\">Wildfire survivor and activist Jeff Okrepkie\u003c/a> told KQED, “Everyone’s method of going through this and coping with it is going to be different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parting piece of advice was this: “Do not go through it alone. Find a group that you can go through this together with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, works to fell burned trees in Altadena, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1 work to fell burned trees in Altadena, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns in the hillside above the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030_quad-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-029-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena resident Herb Wilson, 67, walks with his dog, Rosie, to survey the home he shares with his wife, Loyda. Wilson holds two UPS pins, top left, from his career with the company that Loyda found in their home after it was destroyed in the Eaton Fire. The two pins were among the few items they found at home. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have friends and family members who live in each of the affected areas, or lived there growing up, before they moved elsewhere in California. They tell me they feel like a part of them has been erased. They worry their private memories will fade on them, especially if they never digitally recorded certain sights and have lost print photographs and physical memorabilia. Then there are the sounds and smells that one can get only by being in a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021019/la-fires-threaten-california-insurance-market-stability-housing-costs\">insurance companies\u003c/a> will want passports and birth certificates; what fire victims want from the past is much more personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, we’ve all had our heads in the sand, saying after every terrible event, and there have been so many, “Now is the time we get serious about refreshing our emergency response plans, our building codes, our zoning ordinances, our housing and insurance markets.” This happens year after year after year. I want to believe the Palisades and Eaton fires will be enough to force us to get serious, but years of reporting on our failures to get serious make me skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021781\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-800x343.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-1020x438.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-1536x659.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043_duo-1920x824.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire destroyed buildings along Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke fills the sky over Pasadena due to several wildfires burning in the Los Angeles, area on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-082_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Lopez (left), an Altadena resident, and his friend Frank Alcaraz flag down drivers to stop for free water and supplies in Pasadena, on Jan. 9, 2025, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area days earlier. Lopez’s house survived the fire, but he said many of his neighbors’ homes did not.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most heartening things about covering the aftermath of a wildfire is seeing the community come together. People are terribly sorry to lose their homes, their pets, their belongings. But they’re also sorry to lose their neighbors and that sense of community you have when you know who’s next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks, months, years to come, the neighborhoods as people have known them, will not go back to what they were before. Some families will be unable to rebuild for financial reasons, often because the current owners inherited the house from their parents or grandparents, who bought the house when it was much, much cheaper than it is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021323\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of homes (above and below) in Altadena, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some families will be able to rebuild, but that will involve months or years of construction while they live somewhere else. Many families will find that rent is so expensive in L.A. County that they simply have to move elsewhere to have a place to live in the short to long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021782\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-800x344.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-1020x439.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-1536x660.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-054_duo-1920x826.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena resident Taylor Williams, 17, holds a Santa mug that she found in the home she shared with her family after it was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I feel their grief so deeply. I get to channel my sympathy into stories I share with the rest of the country, and that allows me to approach this grief clinically, like a doctor or an engineer, for now. I don’t want my personal grief to get in the way of being of service for others. But at some point, when the neighborhood schools, churches, cafes, art galleries, pizza joints stop smoldering, when I can stop checking the wind speeds and humidity levels in the air, the grief will come knocking again. ‘Hey, we need to talk.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-061_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bunny figurines sit on a shelf among the burned remains of The Bunny Museum in Altadena, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021661/3-things-that-folks-facing-los-angeles-fires-can-do-from-a-fellow-california-wildfire-survivor\">Wildfire survivor and activist Jeff Okrepkie\u003c/a> told KQED, “Everyone’s method of going through this and coping with it is going to be different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parting piece of advice was this: “Do not go through it alone. Find a group that you can go through this together with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016.jpg 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-016-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, works to fell burned trees in Altadena, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-012-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1 work to fell burned trees in Altadena, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-019-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns in the hillside above the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>About 800 incarcerated firefighters are working with emergency responders to battle the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">Los Angeles wildfires\u003c/a> as part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Fire Camp Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 2,000 incarcerated people regularly take part in the program, which trains incarcerees to work with the California Department of Forestry to respond to fire-related emergencies like the deadly fires that have burned more than 9,000 structures this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDCR, 783 Fire Camp firefighters have been cutting fire lines and removing fuel from behind structures to slow fire spread. Participants in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/faq-conservation-fire-camp-program/\">firefighting program\u003c/a> are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day. On days when the firefighters are participating in an active emergency, the rate goes up by $1.[aside postID=news_12021019 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSoCal4AP-1020x680.jpg']California has relied on incarcerated firefighters to combat wildfires \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-californias-inmate-firefighter-program-180980662/\">since the mid-1900s\u003c/a>, especially during World War II when many professional firefighters and fire crew members were serving in the war. The state has received criticism in the past for taking advantage of cheap, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-against-outlawing-slavery-why-is-prop-6-failing\">incarcerated labor\u003c/a>. Proposition 6, which would have banned the use of forced prison labor, failed in November, with 53.8% of voters opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t turn and say the prison system is providing this labor that we need because there are so many wildfires, and so it must remain that way,” Lindsey Feldman, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis, said. “Instead, we should be asking why are there so many fires and why have we as a society all agreed that prison labor is the effective way to stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR’s firefighting program, in particular, has come under scrutiny due to the dangers associated with wildfires, which can quickly change direction. Incarcerated firefighters are more likely to get injured on the job compared to their professional counterparts, according to a report released by \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5457637/inmate-firefighters-injuries-death/\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman, who specializes in identity, labor and incarceration, said the use of incarcerated labor in California and in other states will always be exploitative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters work through dirt and dust as they frantically dig a containment line to hold off a fire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate firefighters dig a containment line as they battle the Palisades Fire on Jan. 10, 2025 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no justification for the pay being as little as it is for the work that is being performed,” Feldman said. “There’s no question that this is risky work — dangerous — and people in prison tend to be more at risk of workplace injury than non-incarcerated people just because oversight in general is less than it is out of prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in CDCR’s program must meet certain security requirements before going through an extensive training program. The firefighters are stationed across 35 minimum-security facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew anything about wildland fires until I actually went to Fire Camp, and I grew to love it,” said Royal Ramey, cofounder and chief executive officer of The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated people find work as firefighters.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12017770,news_12021125,science_1965575\"]“It was a lot of camaraderie and we did gain the knowledge, skills and abilities to do it, but we didn’t know how we could move forward in terms of pursuing a career in it. It was definitely difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramey was 20 when he was sentenced to six years at the California Correctional Institution. Ramey decided to volunteer with the Fire Camp, a decision that changed his life, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said serving as a firefighter gave him and others a sense of purpose, as well as the skills that California needs in order to combat climate change-related disasters such as wildfires. But it is difficult for formerly incarcerated firefighters to find jobs in forestry and fire management because of their convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California officials have recently passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837644/newsom-signs-law-paving-way-for-former-inmates-to-become-professional-firefighters\">reforms\u003c/a> expanding opportunities for former inmates, Ramey noted that barriers to employment persist, a struggle which inspired his nonprofit. He argued that Fire Camp could be part of the solution, and said that many people who went through fire training are equipped to help in emergencies once their sentences are finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can contribute to the labor shortage we have here, and why not give them the opportunity to become wildland firefighters to support the state and to be able to get a family and a career,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After days of sniping back and forth with President-elect Donald Trump over California’s handling of the fires ravaging Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom today invited the incoming Republican president to visit the state and survey the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor signed his public overture “with respect and an open hand.” But he also included praise for outgoing President Joe Biden and implicit criticism of Trump’s early handling of the tragedy — reflecting the tricky balance between cooperation and controlling the narrative that Newsom is trying to maintain as he seeks help from his biggest political nemesis to address one of the worst disasters in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191/photo/1\">letter also shared on social media\u003c/a>. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Tuesday, when a series of fires driven by hurricane-force winds began breaking out across the Los Angeles region, Trump has repeatedly blasted Newsom and other California leaders online for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-donald-trump-fact-check/\">mismanaging the state’s water\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113796555731896970\">called on “Newscum” to resign\u003c/a>. Frustrations that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says\">some fire hydrants ran dry\u003c/a> as crews battled a massive blaze in the Pacific Palisades — a failure that Newsom on Friday ordered the state to investigate — has underpinned much of the criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hostile rhetoric has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/california-fires-donald-trump-money/\">raised fears that Trump may follow through\u003c/a> on earlier threats to withhold disaster aid from California unless the state overhauls its water policy by allowing more supply to flow south to Central Valley farmers and Southern California. That would make it substantially more costly for the state to recover from the Los Angeles fires, which are already estimated to have caused economic losses of more than $50 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Trump administration officials told Politico last fall that the president-elect was \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">flagrantly political with disaster funding\u003c/a> during his first term. Trump reportedly withheld approval for aid related to California’s 2018 wildfires because of the state’s Democratic leanings, until aides showed him that many of the residents of the affected areas had voted for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/trump-california-wildfire-aid-newsom.html\">campaign trail last year\u003c/a>, he vowed that if the governor didn’t agree to divert more money to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021693,news_12016262,news_12013395\"]The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Newsom’s invitation to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Biden has already issued a major disaster declaration for the Los Angeles fires, unlocking critical aid for the response and recovery, Trump could try to punish California by reversing the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be an unprecedented move that would almost certainly be challenged in court, said Daniel Farber, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law gives sitting presidents the power to issue a disaster declaration but does not spell out if they can retract one, Farber said. “I don’t think that ever occurred to Congress that that would be an issue.” He noted that the statute’s purpose was to dispense disaster aid “orderly and efficiently” — so a president reversing a previous administration’s declaration “would really undermine the whole premise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are no backseats,” Farber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump could still slow-walk how the Federal Emergency Management Agency distributed funds. That’s something he did in his first term, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. A 2021 federal report \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudoig.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/HUD%20OIG%20Final%20Report_2019SU008945I.pdf\">found that the Trump administration delayed $20 billion\u003c/a> in disaster aid to the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could definitely let FEMA know to drag their feet,” Farber said. “You say they are dragging their feet deliberately for political reasons, and they just say, ‘No, we are doing the best we can. There’s a lot of paperwork.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom: ‘Sickens me to my core’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom and his administration have pushed back with increasing vehemence against accusations from Trump and other prominent Republicans that a lack of available water, poor vegetation management and bureaucratic incompetence are to blame for Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a video call with Biden on Friday morning, Newsom lamented the “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation, lies, that people want to divide this country,” which he said were damaging California’s response efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation,” he said. “It infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, in an email to political supporters, Newsom explicitly called out Trump and his allies for their “politically motivated lies” about the fires, which “sickens me to my core,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His letter to Trump, released not long after, was far softer. Newsom invoked their joint visits to Paradise and Malibu in 2018 to tour the devastation from the deadly Camp and Woolsey fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. Jerry Brown in Paradise on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As you prepare to assume the presidency once more, I invite you to come to California again — to meet with the Americans affected by these fires, see the devastation firsthand, and join me and others in thanking the heroic firefighters and first responders who are putting their lives on the line,” Newsom wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bob Salladay, a spokesperson for the governor, said the invitation was not an attempt to reset their relationship, nor would Newsom soft-pedal his criticism about Trump’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a binary choice,” Salladay said in a text message. “We will have to engage with the Trump administration — he’s going to be the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the letter, we would like to see the president-elect out here to show some compassion and interest in the people of California and Los Angeles,” he added. “Nothing more than that. His response will speak volumes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Roger Niello, a Roseville Republican, suggested that the California GOP could help Newsom navigate the complicated dynamics with the Trump administration — although he said the governor has yet to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we’re in the minority, we do have a number of Republican legislators who have relationships with Republicans in Washington, D.C.,” Niello said. “To the extent that there are any challenges there, to the extent that we have a common approach toward things, we could assist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After days of sniping back and forth with President-elect Donald Trump over California’s handling of the fires ravaging Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom today invited the incoming Republican president to visit the state and survey the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor signed his public overture “with respect and an open hand.” But he also included praise for outgoing President Joe Biden and implicit criticism of Trump’s early handling of the tragedy — reflecting the tricky balance between cooperation and controlling the narrative that Newsom is trying to maintain as he seeks help from his biggest political nemesis to address one of the worst disasters in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191/photo/1\">letter also shared on social media\u003c/a>. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Tuesday, when a series of fires driven by hurricane-force winds began breaking out across the Los Angeles region, Trump has repeatedly blasted Newsom and other California leaders online for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-donald-trump-fact-check/\">mismanaging the state’s water\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113796555731896970\">called on “Newscum” to resign\u003c/a>. Frustrations that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says\">some fire hydrants ran dry\u003c/a> as crews battled a massive blaze in the Pacific Palisades — a failure that Newsom on Friday ordered the state to investigate — has underpinned much of the criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hostile rhetoric has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/california-fires-donald-trump-money/\">raised fears that Trump may follow through\u003c/a> on earlier threats to withhold disaster aid from California unless the state overhauls its water policy by allowing more supply to flow south to Central Valley farmers and Southern California. That would make it substantially more costly for the state to recover from the Los Angeles fires, which are already estimated to have caused economic losses of more than $50 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Trump administration officials told Politico last fall that the president-elect was \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">flagrantly political with disaster funding\u003c/a> during his first term. Trump reportedly withheld approval for aid related to California’s 2018 wildfires because of the state’s Democratic leanings, until aides showed him that many of the residents of the affected areas had voted for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/trump-california-wildfire-aid-newsom.html\">campaign trail last year\u003c/a>, he vowed that if the governor didn’t agree to divert more money to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Newsom’s invitation to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Biden has already issued a major disaster declaration for the Los Angeles fires, unlocking critical aid for the response and recovery, Trump could try to punish California by reversing the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be an unprecedented move that would almost certainly be challenged in court, said Daniel Farber, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law gives sitting presidents the power to issue a disaster declaration but does not spell out if they can retract one, Farber said. “I don’t think that ever occurred to Congress that that would be an issue.” He noted that the statute’s purpose was to dispense disaster aid “orderly and efficiently” — so a president reversing a previous administration’s declaration “would really undermine the whole premise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are no backseats,” Farber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump could still slow-walk how the Federal Emergency Management Agency distributed funds. That’s something he did in his first term, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. A 2021 federal report \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudoig.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/HUD%20OIG%20Final%20Report_2019SU008945I.pdf\">found that the Trump administration delayed $20 billion\u003c/a> in disaster aid to the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could definitely let FEMA know to drag their feet,” Farber said. “You say they are dragging their feet deliberately for political reasons, and they just say, ‘No, we are doing the best we can. There’s a lot of paperwork.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom: ‘Sickens me to my core’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom and his administration have pushed back with increasing vehemence against accusations from Trump and other prominent Republicans that a lack of available water, poor vegetation management and bureaucratic incompetence are to blame for Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a video call with Biden on Friday morning, Newsom lamented the “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation, lies, that people want to divide this country,” which he said were damaging California’s response efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation,” he said. “It infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, in an email to political supporters, Newsom explicitly called out Trump and his allies for their “politically motivated lies” about the fires, which “sickens me to my core,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His letter to Trump, released not long after, was far softer. Newsom invoked their joint visits to Paradise and Malibu in 2018 to tour the devastation from the deadly Camp and Woolsey fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. Jerry Brown in Paradise on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As you prepare to assume the presidency once more, I invite you to come to California again — to meet with the Americans affected by these fires, see the devastation firsthand, and join me and others in thanking the heroic firefighters and first responders who are putting their lives on the line,” Newsom wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bob Salladay, a spokesperson for the governor, said the invitation was not an attempt to reset their relationship, nor would Newsom soft-pedal his criticism about Trump’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a binary choice,” Salladay said in a text message. “We will have to engage with the Trump administration — he’s going to be the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the letter, we would like to see the president-elect out here to show some compassion and interest in the people of California and Los Angeles,” he added. “Nothing more than that. His response will speak volumes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Roger Niello, a Roseville Republican, suggested that the California GOP could help Newsom navigate the complicated dynamics with the Trump administration — although he said the governor has yet to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we’re in the minority, we do have a number of Republican legislators who have relationships with Republicans in Washington, D.C.,” Niello said. “To the extent that there are any challenges there, to the extent that we have a common approach toward things, we could assist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Firefighters raced Saturday to cut off spreading wildfires before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward the world famous J. Paul Getty Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles, while new evacuation warnings left more homeowners on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fierce battle against the flames was underway in Mandeville Canyon, home to Arnold Schwarzenegger and other celebrities not far from the Pacific coast, where swooping helicopters dumped water as the blaze charged downhill. Firefighters on the ground used hoses in an attempt to beat back leaping flames as thick smoke blanketed the chaparral-covered hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a briefing, CalFire Operations Chief Christian Litz said a main focus Saturday would be the Palisades Fire burning in the canyon area, not far from the UCLA campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be aggressive out there,” Litz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said the L.A. area “had another night of unimaginable terror and heartbreak, and even more Angelenos evacuated due to the northeast expansion of the Palisades Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only light breezes were fanning the flames, but the National Weather Service warned that locally strong Santa Ana winds — the nemesis of firefighters — could soon return. Those winds have been blamed for turning wildfires into infernos that leveled entire \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-pacific-palisades-wildfires-los-angeles-4b67b7f29d0d6eb7321a52ef60c17d60\">neighborhoods\u003c/a> in the L.A. area, where there has been no significant rainfall in more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fire-devastation-climate-change-santa-ana-winds-a46e2bb6785b1e325f6076fb22c8fcc5\">eight months.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire also was threatening to jump over Interstate 405, a main traffic artery through the area, which could become a gateway to densely populated areas in the Hollywood Hills and San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917.jpg\" alt=\"A city with smoke in the nearby hills.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Palisades Fire rises over the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on Jan. 11, 2025. The Palisades Fire, the largest of the Los Angeles fires, spread toward previously untouched neighborhoods Jan. 11, forcing new evacuations and dimming hopes that the disaster was coming under control. \u003ccite>(Agustin Paullier/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">The search for bodies continues\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even as the fires spread, the grim work of sifting through the devastation continued Saturday, with teams conducting systematic grid searches with cadaver dogs, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna. A family assistance center also was being set up in Pasadena, said Luna, who urged residents to abide by curfews.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021661,news_12021440,news_12021203\"]“We have people driving up and around trying to get in just to look. Stay away,” he said. “We understand that this is extremely stressful and absolutely challenging, but we appreciate the public’s cooperation as we work together to get through this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires have consumed about 56 square miles — an area larger than San Francisco. Tens of thousands of people remained under evacuation orders and new evacuations were ordered Friday evening in an area that includes part of Interstate 405 after a flare up on the eastern side of the Palisades Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fires first began popping up around a densely populated, 25-mile expanse north of downtown L.A., they have burned more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wildfire-structure-damage-3f319dfaa36e583c06c8d49bd835084e\">12,000 structures\u003c/a>, a term that includes homes, apartment buildings, businesses, outbuildings and vehicles. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-possible-causes-6112488f835e45f53c67d4d03d7a1e4f\">No cause\u003c/a> has been identified yet for the largest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires are still burning but early estimates indicate the losses so far could make the wildfires the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">costliest ever\u003c/a>. A preliminary estimate by AccuWeather put the damage and economic losses so far between $135 billion and $150 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of mountains near a city with smoke billowing out of a valley.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618-160x97.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helicopter aerial view of the Palisades fire burning in the Mountain Gate Country\u003cbr>Club area with smoke visible from the San Fernando Valley on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Survivors return to the wreckage of their homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, many residents returned in a state of shock. For some, it was a first look at the stark reality of what was lost as the region of 13 million people grapples with the ominous challenge of overcoming the disaster and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridget Berg, who was at work when she watched television coverage of her house in Altadena erupt in flames, came back for the first time with her family two days later “just to make it real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their feet crunched across the broken bits of what had been their home for 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her kids sifted through debris on the sidewalk, finding a clay pot and a few keepsakes as they searched for Japanese wood prints they hoped to recover. Her husband pulled his hand out of rubble near the still-standing fireplace, holding up a piece of petrified wood handed down by his grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021703\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094.jpg\" alt=\"Two people seen from behind hug as they stand amid the ruins of a destroyed and burnt out former house.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of burned houses at Malibu Beach that burned during Palisades wildfire in Malibu, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK. It’s OK,” Berg said as much to herself as others as she took stock of the destruction, remembering the deck and pool from which her family watched fireworks. “It’s not like we just lost our house — everybody lost their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents sifted through rubble for keepsakes, officials urged them not to, warning that the ash can contain lead, arsenic, asbestos and other harmful materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re kicking that stuff up, you’re breathing it in,” said Chris Thomas, a spokesman for the unified incident command at the Palisades Fire. “All of that stuff is toxic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents will be allowed to return — with protective gear — after damage teams have evaluated their properties, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">City leadership accused of skimping on firefighting funds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Allegations of leadership failures and political blame have begun and so have investigations. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered state officials to determine why a 117 million-gallon reservoir was out of service and some hydrants had run dry. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said city leadership failed her department by not providing enough money for firefighting. She also criticized the lack of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect there’s going to be water,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 11 people have been killed, five in the Palisades Fire and six in the Eaton Fire, according to the L.A. County medical examiner’s office. Officials said they expected that number to rise as cadaver dogs search leveled neighborhoods and crews assess the devastation, and on Friday authorities established a center where people could report the missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162.jpg\" alt=\"A room with a man and a woman and a screen with three people on it.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden (right) and Vice President Kamala Harris listen during a briefing on the federal response to the Los Angeles wildfires as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell (top left), California Governor Gavin Newsom (top right) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appear virtually in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The disaster took homes from everyone — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-fires-celebrities-homes-lost-6cdc06b85b737c79739318a853e64642\">from waiters to movie stars\u003c/a>. The government has not yet released figures on the cost of the damage, but private firms have estimated it will climb into the tens of billions. The Walt Disney Co. announced Friday it will donate $15 million to respond to the fires and help rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flames hit schools, churches, a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-destroyed-churches-synagogue-mosque-eba09c35bd7c851c57574171aa4ed34d\">synagogue\u003c/a>, libraries, boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/landmarks-destroyed-california-wildfires-135b5d227f3ea1b5b9f877b48e3bbdb9\">local landmarks\u003c/a> including the Will Rogers’ Western Ranch House and a Queen Anne-style mansion in Altadena that was commissioned by wealthy mapmaker Andrew McNally and had stood since 1887.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Progress made on fighting the Eaton fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Firefighters for the first time made progress Friday afternoon on the Eaton Fire north of Pasadena, which has burned more than 7,000 structures. Officials said most evacuation orders for the area had been lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Mayor Karen Bass, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mayor-karen-bass-la-fires-leadership-99e52cf69cc656ee7e0328c6b609be74\">faces a critical test of her leadership\u003c/a> as her city endures its greatest crisis in decades, said several smaller fires also were stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews earlier Friday had been gaining ground on the Palisades Fire, which burned 5,300 structures and is the most destructive in L.A.’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021705\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192826242.jpg\" alt=\"An armored vehicle in the middle of a street with a national guardsman next to it, in a residential street.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192826242.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192826242-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192826242-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192826242-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California National Guard secure the Eaton fire evacuation zone in Altadena on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 to secure the area from looting. \u003ccite>(Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California National Guard troops arrived on the streets of Altadena before dawn to help protect property in the fire evacuation zone, and evening curfews were in effect to prevent looting after several earlier arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-f473e0423125c92c693b9c368ca20532\">level of devastation is jarring\u003c/a> even in a state that regularly confronts massive wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Meghan and Harry visit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan visited the Pasadena Convention Center to help hand out food to evacuees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who live about 90 miles north of the Los Angeles area, also listed organizations supporting fire victims on their website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three people talking amid ruins.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25011067373673-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex (right) speaks with Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo (center) and Doug Goodwin, whose home was destroyed by the Eaton Fire, in Altadena, LA County, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ramer reported from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press writer Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said the L.A. area “had another night of unimaginable terror and heartbreak, and even more Angelenos evacuated due to the northeast expansion of the Palisades Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only light breezes were fanning the flames, but the National Weather Service warned that locally strong Santa Ana winds — the nemesis of firefighters — could soon return. Those winds have been blamed for turning wildfires into infernos that leveled entire \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-pacific-palisades-wildfires-los-angeles-4b67b7f29d0d6eb7321a52ef60c17d60\">neighborhoods\u003c/a> in the L.A. area, where there has been no significant rainfall in more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fire-devastation-climate-change-santa-ana-winds-a46e2bb6785b1e325f6076fb22c8fcc5\">eight months.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire also was threatening to jump over Interstate 405, a main traffic artery through the area, which could become a gateway to densely populated areas in the Hollywood Hills and San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917.jpg\" alt=\"A city with smoke in the nearby hills.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192816917-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Palisades Fire rises over the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on Jan. 11, 2025. The Palisades Fire, the largest of the Los Angeles fires, spread toward previously untouched neighborhoods Jan. 11, forcing new evacuations and dimming hopes that the disaster was coming under control. \u003ccite>(Agustin Paullier/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">The search for bodies continues\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even as the fires spread, the grim work of sifting through the devastation continued Saturday, with teams conducting systematic grid searches with cadaver dogs, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna. A family assistance center also was being set up in Pasadena, said Luna, who urged residents to abide by curfews.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We have people driving up and around trying to get in just to look. Stay away,” he said. “We understand that this is extremely stressful and absolutely challenging, but we appreciate the public’s cooperation as we work together to get through this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires have consumed about 56 square miles — an area larger than San Francisco. Tens of thousands of people remained under evacuation orders and new evacuations were ordered Friday evening in an area that includes part of Interstate 405 after a flare up on the eastern side of the Palisades Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fires first began popping up around a densely populated, 25-mile expanse north of downtown L.A., they have burned more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wildfire-structure-damage-3f319dfaa36e583c06c8d49bd835084e\">12,000 structures\u003c/a>, a term that includes homes, apartment buildings, businesses, outbuildings and vehicles. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-possible-causes-6112488f835e45f53c67d4d03d7a1e4f\">No cause\u003c/a> has been identified yet for the largest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires are still burning but early estimates indicate the losses so far could make the wildfires the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">costliest ever\u003c/a>. A preliminary estimate by AccuWeather put the damage and economic losses so far between $135 billion and $150 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of mountains near a city with smoke billowing out of a valley.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192770618-160x97.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helicopter aerial view of the Palisades fire burning in the Mountain Gate Country\u003cbr>Club area with smoke visible from the San Fernando Valley on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Survivors return to the wreckage of their homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, many residents returned in a state of shock. For some, it was a first look at the stark reality of what was lost as the region of 13 million people grapples with the ominous challenge of overcoming the disaster and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridget Berg, who was at work when she watched television coverage of her house in Altadena erupt in flames, came back for the first time with her family two days later “just to make it real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their feet crunched across the broken bits of what had been their home for 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her kids sifted through debris on the sidewalk, finding a clay pot and a few keepsakes as they searched for Japanese wood prints they hoped to recover. Her husband pulled his hand out of rubble near the still-standing fireplace, holding up a piece of petrified wood handed down by his grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021703\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094.jpg\" alt=\"Two people seen from behind hug as they stand amid the ruins of a destroyed and burnt out former house.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192691094-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of burned houses at Malibu Beach that burned during Palisades wildfire in Malibu, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s OK. It’s OK,” Berg said as much to herself as others as she took stock of the destruction, remembering the deck and pool from which her family watched fireworks. “It’s not like we just lost our house — everybody lost their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents sifted through rubble for keepsakes, officials urged them not to, warning that the ash can contain lead, arsenic, asbestos and other harmful materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re kicking that stuff up, you’re breathing it in,” said Chris Thomas, a spokesman for the unified incident command at the Palisades Fire. “All of that stuff is toxic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents will be allowed to return — with protective gear — after damage teams have evaluated their properties, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">City leadership accused of skimping on firefighting funds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Allegations of leadership failures and political blame have begun and so have investigations. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered state officials to determine why a 117 million-gallon reservoir was out of service and some hydrants had run dry. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said city leadership failed her department by not providing enough money for firefighting. She also criticized the lack of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect there’s going to be water,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 11 people have been killed, five in the Palisades Fire and six in the Eaton Fire, according to the L.A. County medical examiner’s office. Officials said they expected that number to rise as cadaver dogs search leveled neighborhoods and crews assess the devastation, and on Friday authorities established a center where people could report the missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162.jpg\" alt=\"A room with a man and a woman and a screen with three people on it.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192594162-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden (right) and Vice President Kamala Harris listen during a briefing on the federal response to the Los Angeles wildfires as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell (top left), California Governor Gavin Newsom (top right) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appear virtually in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The disaster took homes from everyone — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-fires-celebrities-homes-lost-6cdc06b85b737c79739318a853e64642\">from waiters to movie stars\u003c/a>. The government has not yet released figures on the cost of the damage, but private firms have estimated it will climb into the tens of billions. The Walt Disney Co. announced Friday it will donate $15 million to respond to the fires and help rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flames hit schools, churches, a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-destroyed-churches-synagogue-mosque-eba09c35bd7c851c57574171aa4ed34d\">synagogue\u003c/a>, libraries, boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/landmarks-destroyed-california-wildfires-135b5d227f3ea1b5b9f877b48e3bbdb9\">local landmarks\u003c/a> including the Will Rogers’ Western Ranch House and a Queen Anne-style mansion in Altadena that was commissioned by wealthy mapmaker Andrew McNally and had stood since 1887.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Progress made on fighting the Eaton fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Firefighters for the first time made progress Friday afternoon on the Eaton Fire north of Pasadena, which has burned more than 7,000 structures. 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