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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As weeks go by, though, there will likely be some who can’t be reconnected. Even before the blazes, many of the shelters in Southern California were already overflowing, according to Anne Moellering, the San Francisco SPCA’s chief of rescue and welfare. She said the best way people here can help is by taking in a rescue pet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re filling our shelter with the animals that are coming up here, as are some of the partner shelters that we’re working with to take more of the animals, so adoption is the number one [way people] can pull animals out of a shelter,” she told KQED. “Another great way to go is foster. That’s just a short-term hold of the animal, and that helps us to have more capacity for bringing in animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the East Bay and San Francisco SPCAs are participating in free adoption events for puppies through Sunday to help clear their shelters. Both centers have adoption hours Wednesday through Sunday, and San Francisco’s is also open Tuesday afternoons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come on down and talk to us and meet the animals,” Moellering said. “There’s no pressure, but we have an amazing team of adoption counselors here that can help you find exactly the right animal for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Among the army of firefighters trying to contain the blazes in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> area are over 1,000 incarcerated individuals hacking out fire lines with hand tools in rugged terrain for just dollars a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the experience they gain, those who want to be hired as firefighters after their release will face an uphill battle. Now, lawmakers are considering legislation to make it easier for them to have their records cleared, smoothing their path to firefighting work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Herrera Jr. served 18 years in state and county correctional facilities. After demonstrating good behavior, he was allowed to work as a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, he was called to the burning home of a correctional officer from the prison where he was housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saved it,” Herrera said. “And I just remember them coming and shaking our hands afterwards. And I was like, ‘Whoa, this is surreal.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\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\">\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, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera, who worked on a county crew, said his top pay was $56 a month. Wildland firefighters make between \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/faq-conservation-fire-camp-program/#:~:text=Are%20camp%20participants%20paid%20for,FIRE%2C%20regardless%20of%20skill%20level.\">$5.80 and $10.24 per day\u003c/a> from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, plus $1 an hour from Cal Fire while working active emergencies like the current Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them say the experience alone is worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even do it for the money,” said Herrera. “Because at the end of the day, giving back to the community, knowing you’re providing a service … you can’t put a price on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those who wish to continue the work after their release often find that their criminal record poses a major obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal Ramey, who co-founded the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program to help people through the process, said it’s especially difficult to get municipal firefighting jobs like the one Herrera trained in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs require EMT certification. That’s a particular hurdle because \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/22-CCR-100214.3\">California law\u003c/a> prohibits people with felony convictions from getting certified, effectively blocking many formerly incarcerated firefighters from jobs at county or city fire stations — jobs that tend to provide good benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, work to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To try to ease some of those barriers, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/11/governor-newsom-signs-bill-eliminating-barriers-that-block-former-inmate-fire-crews-from-becoming-career-firefighters-after-serving-their-sentences/\">AB 2147\u003c/a> in 2020. It allows nonviolent offenders who fought fires with prison crews to petition to get their records expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not a sure thing, said Ramey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are eligible for expungement, but it’s up to the judge’s discretion. So it all depends on the situation, the crime, how long they’ve been out, have they been rehabilitated, what have they been doing since they’ve been home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esteban Núñez, a member of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, has been communicating with state Sen. Eloise Reyes (D–San Bernardino) and Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office about follow-up legislation to AB 2147 to simplify and expedite the record-clearing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to have CDCR automatically provide the attorney general’s office with a record showing that a person has completed the fire camp program and then notify the person of their eligibility for having their record expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would make it so that the responsibility doesn’t solely fall on the individual to have to file and either seek out a public defender or an attorney to help them file,” Núñez 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>A judge would still have the final say in whether to grant the expungement petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Núñez expects the new bill to be introduced within the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping more formerly incarcerated firefighters enter the workforce could be a boon for California, whose need for firefighters is only expected to grow as wildfires become bigger and more common with the effects of human-caused climate change. The Nature Conservancy estimates that the state will face a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scienceforconservation.org/assets/downloads/Building_CAs_Forest_Resilience_Workforce.pdf\">labor shortage\u003c/a> of close to 10,000 forestry workers by 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, Newsom granted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2020/07/10/cdcr-announces-additional-actions-to-reduce-population-and-maximize-space-systemwide-to-address-covid-19/\">early release\u003c/a> to some incarcerated firefighters, and he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inmate-fire-crew-civilian-recruitment-20160914-snap-story.html\">scaled back\u003c/a> the CDCR fire crew program while building up the civilian California Conservation Corps for young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott McLean, a spokesperson for Cal Fire, said he’s noticed the reduction in the state’s use of incarcerated fire crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are fewer crews,” he said. “But we fill that void with our seasonal firefighter hand crews as well as [having] the CCC on board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who are released, the new legislation being considered by state officials would make it easier for them to help fill that shortage — and continue their rehabilitation in the process, Núñez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no better way to demonstrate restorative justice,” he said, “than to have folks who have previously harmed their communities really go out to preserve and protect other communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And I was like, ‘Whoa, this is surreal.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\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\">\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, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera, who worked on a county crew, said his top pay was $56 a month. Wildland firefighters make between \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/faq-conservation-fire-camp-program/#:~:text=Are%20camp%20participants%20paid%20for,FIRE%2C%20regardless%20of%20skill%20level.\">$5.80 and $10.24 per day\u003c/a> from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, plus $1 an hour from Cal Fire while working active emergencies like the current Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them say the experience alone is worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even do it for the money,” said Herrera. “Because at the end of the day, giving back to the community, knowing you’re providing a service … you can’t put a price on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those who wish to continue the work after their release often find that their criminal record poses a major obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal Ramey, who co-founded the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program to help people through the process, said it’s especially difficult to get municipal firefighting jobs like the one Herrera trained in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jobs require EMT certification. That’s a particular hurdle because \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/22-CCR-100214.3\">California law\u003c/a> prohibits people with felony convictions from getting certified, effectively blocking many formerly incarcerated firefighters from jobs at county or city fire stations — jobs that tend to provide good benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, work to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To try to ease some of those barriers, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/11/governor-newsom-signs-bill-eliminating-barriers-that-block-former-inmate-fire-crews-from-becoming-career-firefighters-after-serving-their-sentences/\">AB 2147\u003c/a> in 2020. It allows nonviolent offenders who fought fires with prison crews to petition to get their records expunged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not a sure thing, said Ramey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are eligible for expungement, but it’s up to the judge’s discretion. So it all depends on the situation, the crime, how long they’ve been out, have they been rehabilitated, what have they been doing since they’ve been home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esteban Núñez, a member of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, has been communicating with state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles — \u003c/strong>Many Pacific Palisades locals, current and former, have been following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kent.steffes.5\">Facebook feed of 56-year-old Kent Steffes\u003c/a>. He lives in nearby Brentwood now and hasn’t lost his home, but perhaps that’s given him the emotional bandwidth to share more effectively with others what’s happened to their old neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overlooking the Pacific Ocean like its neighbors Malibu and Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades is an affluent neighborhood by any measure. It’s home to celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hanks. Median home values often exceed $3 million. Luxury homes sell for tens of millions. But many of the families who’ve lost their homes are not fabulously wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What most people don’t know is that a lot of the homes are owned by people who can’t afford to live here anymore. They won’t be able to rebuild,” Steffes said. That’s because many family members can’t afford to buy the homes they own at the current market rate. “They couldn’t afford to get a mortgage on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his 20-year-old daughter, Katharine Steffes, who also attended Palisades High (partially burned), we toured the neighborhood as it lay smoking. “All my friends live here,” the sophomore at the University of Notre Dame said. “I don’t know if this place will ever be the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kent Steffes’ family moved to the Pacific Palisades highlands in 1973 when he was 5. His dad, an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Co., bought a home for $75,000, which would be around $533,000 in today’s dollars. The house had five bedrooms, although many homes built in “Pali” in the 1960s and ’70s featured two or three bedrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“What most people don’t know is that a lot of the homes are owned by people who can’t afford to live here anymore. They won’t be able to rebuild,” said Kent Steffes, 56, who grew up in Pacific Palisades. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You were always outside biking or riding skateboards around town,” said Steffes, who grew up to win the inaugural beach volleyball gold medal at the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics\">1996 Summer Olympics\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta\">Atlanta\u003c/a>. He works in finance now. “There was always someplace to explore and have fun and plenty of friends to do it with. We ran out of the house in the morning and didn’t come home until the street lights came on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the decades passed, the neighborhood grew wealthier. By the time Steffes was in his 30s, many modest three- to four-bedroom homes were giving way to “McMansions,” double the size, on the same small lots. Big or small, the original owners aged and died and passed on their homes to their children, as Kent Steffes’ parents did. “We just sold that home last year for $2.5 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, passed in 1978, family members who inherited properties were essentially given the original property tax rate. Steffes’ parents paid about $4,000 in property taxes. Steffes said the people who bought the house last year pay about $37,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the much higher tax rate, a lot of insurance plans cover only the value of the house as it is, not the cost to rebuild according to modern building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’ll say, ‘Hey, your house is worth $300,000,’” Steffes said hypothetically. “But it’ll cost you $1 million to rebuild that same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Wallace, a real estate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/the-situation-is-dire-why-prof-nancy-wallace-researches-wildfire-risk/\">lost her own home\u003c/a> to the Oakland Hills fire of 1991. She’s now considered an expert in price modeling and wildfire “mispricing,” as she puts it, in the insurance market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1216px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1216\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3.jpg 1216w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild3-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1216px) 100vw, 1216px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquez Charter Elementary School was destroyed in the Palisades fire, erasing cherished childhood memories for countless individuals. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kent Steffes )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Insurance adjusters are not your friends,” she said. “They’re not there to sympathize. They’re there to minimize the payout of their company. It might be dressed up with nice words, but that is the challenge that you’re facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due in large part to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020835/southern-california-fires-could-be-most-expensive-us-history\">climate-change-driven wildfires\u003c/a>, hundreds of thousands of Californians have lost their insurance policies altogether in 2024. This has forced many homeowners to turn to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992401/homeowners-insurance-market-stretched-even-thinner-as-2-more-companies-leave-california\">California FAIR Plan\u003c/a>, a state-mandated insurance market of last resort, which often provides more expensive and limited coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Farm, the largest insurer group in California,\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-insurance-e31bef0ed7eeddcde096a5b8f2c1768f\"> announced a halt\u003c/a> to new homeowner insurance policies in the state in 2023 and began canceling or non-renewing policies for tens of thousands of properties in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021911 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_01810_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a spokesman told KQED State Farm still insures 250,000 homes and “As of Tuesday, Jan. 14, we’ve begun to process over 6,700 home and auto claims, already putting tens of millions of dollars back into customers’ hands. We are prepared to address the growing number of claims expected as residents return and assess damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allstate paused the sale of homeowners insurance policies for new customers in 2022. “We continue to offer coverage to most existing homeowners insurance customers,” an Allstate spokesperson wrote KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on Wallace’s analysis, about 1 million California homes are in high- or very high-risk areas, with 2 million to 4.5 million more in vulnerable wildland-urban interface zones. The time it takes to rebuild a home after a wildfire varies significantly depending on the severity of the damage, availability of contractors, and compliance with updated building codes, but Wallace estimates it could take up to four years to rebuild a home destroyed by a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four years is a lifetime for many people,” she said but noted the incentives in the current system are to rebuild, and for those with the money to rebuild, build back bigger and more expensively. That’s if they have insurance policies that will meet the demand now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/los-angeles-fire-losses-reach-30-billion-insurers/story?id=117653563\">how expensive\u003c/a> the Palisades Fire is expected to be, Wallace warned the California insurance market could fail because many insurance policies are too generous given the actual risks, and the state insurance commissioner’s office has only recently begun to allow the industry to adjust for the changing reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these factors exacerbate the trend toward gentrification in Pacific Palisades and neighborhoods like it, meaning home ownership in those places is becoming infeasible for any but the most wealthy Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Wallace said, many homeowners in Pacific Palisades will choose to do what she did after the Oakland Hills fire took her home: move out of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The house had five bedrooms, although many homes built in “Pali” in the 1960s and ’70s featured two or three bedrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild1-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“What most people don’t know is that a lot of the homes are owned by people who can’t afford to live here anymore. They won’t be able to rebuild,” said Kent Steffes, 56, who grew up in Pacific Palisades. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You were always outside biking or riding skateboards around town,” said Steffes, who grew up to win the inaugural beach volleyball gold medal at the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics\">1996 Summer Olympics\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta\">Atlanta\u003c/a>. He works in finance now. “There was always someplace to explore and have fun and plenty of friends to do it with. We ran out of the house in the morning and didn’t come home until the street lights came on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the decades passed, the neighborhood grew wealthier. By the time Steffes was in his 30s, many modest three- to four-bedroom homes were giving way to “McMansions,” double the size, on the same small lots. Big or small, the original owners aged and died and passed on their homes to their children, as Kent Steffes’ parents did. “We just sold that home last year for $2.5 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711689/40-years-on-how-does-proposition-13-impact-the-california-dream\">Proposition 13\u003c/a>, passed in 1978, family members who inherited properties were essentially given the original property tax rate. Steffes’ parents paid about $4,000 in property taxes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a spokesman told KQED State Farm still insures 250,000 homes and “As of Tuesday, Jan. 14, we’ve begun to process over 6,700 home and auto claims, already putting tens of millions of dollars back into customers’ hands. We are prepared to address the growing number of claims expected as residents return and assess damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allstate paused the sale of homeowners insurance policies for new customers in 2022. “We continue to offer coverage to most existing homeowners insurance customers,” an Allstate spokesperson wrote KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on Wallace’s analysis, about 1 million California homes are in high- or very high-risk areas, with 2 million to 4.5 million more in vulnerable wildland-urban interface zones. The time it takes to rebuild a home after a wildfire varies significantly depending on the severity of the damage, availability of contractors, and compliance with updated building codes, but Wallace estimates it could take up to four years to rebuild a home destroyed by a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four years is a lifetime for many people,” she said but noted the incentives in the current system are to rebuild, and for those with the money to rebuild, build back bigger and more expensively. That’s if they have insurance policies that will meet the demand now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Business/los-angeles-fire-losses-reach-30-billion-insurers/story?id=117653563\">how expensive\u003c/a> the Palisades Fire is expected to be, Wallace warned the California insurance market could fail because many insurance policies are too generous given the actual risks, and the state insurance commissioner’s office has only recently begun to allow the industry to adjust for the changing reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these factors exacerbate the trend toward gentrification in Pacific Palisades and neighborhoods like it, meaning home ownership in those places is becoming infeasible for any but the most wealthy Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Wallace said, many homeowners in Pacific Palisades will choose to do what she did after the Oakland Hills fire took her home: move out of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The suggestion that Congress should place conditions on relief aid needed by thousands of Californians provoked a mixed response from state leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Jackson, who leads the San Francisco Republican Party, said it would be appropriate to put stipulations on federal assistance. 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It’s a pragmatic thing,” Jackson said. “We should not use our federal government as a piggy bank to bail out residents or cities that build extremely fire-prone areas, especially when they haven’t done enough mitigation to prevent a disaster like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that while it would be impossible to completely prevent natural disasters from occurring, things can be done to reduce the impact of wildfires in cities such as Los Angeles. Californians, Jackson claimed, should consider how much risk is associated with building in certain areas and what measures can be taken to make sure \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">a neighborhood is more resilient to wildfire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021435 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAPalisadesFireAP-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he disagrees with tying relief considerations to political issues like the country’s debt ceiling, which Johnson and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">other Republican politicians\u003c/a> have suggested, Jackson said state officials should feel the pressure to be fiscally responsible when it comes to recovering from the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rules and policies have to change to force the state and localities to make shifts that dramatically reduce the chances that people are going to come back to the federal government for a large bailout in the future,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two biggest fires devastating \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-things-to-know-winds-f93d41dc901e352b63e86ab67ef7790e\">the Los Angeles area\u003c/a> grew only slightly Friday as firefighters beat back the blazes that have killed at least 11 people, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-pacific-palisades-wildfires-los-angeles-4b67b7f29d0d6eb7321a52ef60c17d60\">obliterated neighborhoods\u003c/a> and left the nation’s second-largest city on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/wildfire-california-los-angeles-updates\">expressed optimism\u003c/a> that a break from the punishing winds stoking the flames through the weekend will allow firefighters to make headway on the fires that have burned an area bigger than San Francisco and destroyed more than 10,000 homes and other structures since Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fires are not out, though today we’re going to make a lot of progress,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This map is updated regularly throughout the day. Wildfire locations are sourced from \u003ca href=\"//www.fire.ca.gov/%E2%80%9D\">Cal Fire\u003c/a> and perimeter data is from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nifc.gov/\">National Interagency Fire Center\u003c/a>. Click on each fire icon for more incident-specific detail. Click on layers button (top left) to see current evacuation areas (via LA County). If map is not loading correctly, try viewing it \u003ca href=\"//kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=c7285ba9ce524bbba6c689e96d013112%E2%80%9D\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=c7285ba9ce524bbba6c689e96d013112\" width=\"1200\" height=\"650\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Palisades virtual community meeting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A virtual community meeting for people impacted by the Palisades Fire has been scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3J4k_ml1No\">You can participate by clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our neighbors want to know where to go for immediate help, how to get information about their home when they can return, and what long term resources are available,” L.A. County Board Supervisor Kathryn Barger said at a press conference Friday afternoon, adding residents questions about power and gas shutoffs and when people will be able to access their homes again will all be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/kathrynbarger/status/1877804174051602846\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Red flag warning set to expire temporarily\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said the current red flag warning will expire at 6 p.m. Friday, but a new warning is expected to be issued Monday, when windy conditions in the Los Angeles area are forecast to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“L.A. County will be prepared,” Marrone said at a press conference at 1 p.m. Friday. “Please, rest assured that we will not stop until the fires are fully contained and we can and we will continue to be here for you as we plan for the repopulation recovery and rebuilding that will be occurring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFire said more than 8,000 personnel, including firefighters, law enforcement and others doing emergency support have responded the wildfires, including crews from Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marrone thanked the hard work of all those who have saved lives and protected what property they could, including the historic The Mount Wilson Observatory and its telescope, which Marrone said “are undamaged thanks to the efforts of our firefighters and observatory staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New evacuation order issued\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation order on Friday due to a brush fire in the Granada Hills area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area is just west of the Hurst Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Stewart, a spokeswoman with the Los Angeles Fire Department, said firefighters on the ground and in the air were able to tackle the Archer Fire quickly and that the evacuation order is expected to be downgraded soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have some winds and that’s why we have not yet lifted the evacuation order,” Stewart told KTLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brush fire sparked in the Granada Hills area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://lacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=695f0c805ba046b28c84da79bbf252dc\">Click here to view the latest areas impacted by evacuations via the County of Los Angeles Emergency Map.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Curfew in effect as arrests made\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Capt. Myron Johnson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said a curfew remains in effect for the mandatory evacuation zones of the Palisades and Eaton fire areas, effective from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This curfew will be strictly enforced and is being taken to enhance public safety, protect property and prevent looting in areas where residents have been evacuated,” Johnson said. “We ask that all individuals comply with the curfew and stay clear of the impacted areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said the National Guard was called in Thursday evening to assist law enforcement. Since the evacuations began, authorities have arrested 18 people — 15 in the Eaton Fire area and three in Palisades — on suspicion of possession of drugs, burglary tools, burglary, identity theft and looting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Strong winds start the day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Metropolitan L.A. and its 13 million residents, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fire-devastation-climate-change-santa-ana-winds-a46e2bb6785b1e325f6076fb22c8fcc5\">haven’t seen rain in more than eight months\u003c/a>, woke up Friday to another day of strong winds and the threat of new flareups. The gusts were expected to diminish by evening, however, and already have died down from earlier in the week, when hurricane-force winds \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/la-wildfire-flee-evacuation-wind-palisades-f302b4cd347f9a4f4fe707fa0a717aca\">blew embers\u003c/a> that ignited hillsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But meteorologist Rich Thompson warned the break could be short-lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking for a little respite on Friday and Saturday from the Santa Ana winds but then they’re going to pick up again Sunday through most of next week,” he said Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said Friday morning that firefighters had contained several smaller fires in the past 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877767248292827515\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/southern-california-wildfires-la-6d3c56318841ecbb97f9514f65fbf89b\">the Kenneth Fire started\u003c/a> in the San Fernando Valley near a school serving as a shelter for evacuees from another fire. It moved into neighboring Ventura County, but a large and aggressive response by firefighters stopped the flames from spreading.\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 has grown used to massive wildfires. Dozens of blocks of scenic Pacific Palisades were flattened to smoldering rubble. In neighboring Malibu, where oceanfront homes once stood, all that was left above the debris were blackened palm strands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Lara sifted through the remains of his home in Altadena, next to Pasadena, on Thursday with tears in his eyes, hoping to find a safe with a set of earrings that once belonged to his great-great-grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our memories, all our sentimental attachments, things that were gifted from generation to generation to generation are now gone,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-possible-causes-6112488f835e45f53c67d4d03d7a1e4f\">No cause\u003c/a> has been identified for the largest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside tag='wildfire' label='More Wildfire Coverage']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A firefighting plane had to be grounded Thursday after it was struck by a drone flown by a civilian, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. Nobody was injured. It’s a federal crime to fly a drone during firefighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters for the first time have made progress containing the Eaton Fire north of Pasadena, officials said Friday. It started Tuesday night and has burned more than 5,000 structures, a term that includes homes, apartment buildings, businesses, outbuildings and vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the west, the fire in Pacific Palisades, the largest burning in the L.A. area, has destroyed over 5,300 structures. The blaze is already the most destructive in Los Angeles’ history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least five churches, a synagogue, seven schools, two libraries, boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and groceries have been burned. So too were the Will Rogers’ Western Ranch House and Topanga Ranch Motel, local landmarks dating to the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government has not yet released figures on the cost of the damage. AccuWeather, a private company that provides data on weather and its impact, on Thursday increased its estimate of the damage and economic loss to $135-$150 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/CAgovernor/status/1877812811411419595\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Returning to what’s left\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bridget Berg, who watched her home in Altadena erupt in flames live on TV while she was at work, came back with her family on Thursday “just to make it real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They searched through charred debris of the house they bought 16 years ago, finding pieces of pottery, petrified wood and Japanese wood block prints handed down by a grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we just lost our house,” she said. “Everybody lost their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192923196-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the smoke and flames from the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on Jan. 7, 2025 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The enormity of the destruction emerges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Right now, it’s impossible to quantify the extent of the destruction other than “total devastation and loss,” said Barbara Bruderlin, head of the Malibu Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are areas where everything is gone, there isn’t even a stick of wood left, it’s just dirt,” Bruderlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 10 deaths so far, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley confirmed two were in the Palisades Fire. 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"content": "\u003cp>Wildfires in California are common. Destructive ones are increasingly common now, too. But how common is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021440/firefighters-catch-needed-break-as-winds-fueling-devastating-la-blazes-die-down\">a serious wildfire in Southern California\u003c/a> in January?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, the area’s wildfire season ran from May to October, according to the Western Fire Chiefs Association. But that season has grown longer as human-caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">climate change is making landscapes hotter and drier\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924234/why-suppressing-wildfires-may-be-making-the-western-fire-crisis-worse\">a century’s worth of fire suppression\u003c/a> has built up fuel and primed forests to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, enormous wildfires like those wreaking havoc in Southern California are far from the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Large fires in January are exceedingly rare because the region nearly always receives a fire-season-ending rainfall event by the end of the year,” said Crystal Kolden, a fire scientist at UC Merced. “This is a very novel event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several factors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020835/southern-california-fires-could-be-most-expensive-us-history\">set the stage for the deadly wildfires\u003c/a> in Southern California: massive vegetation growth from past wet winters that dried out in the blazing summer, a winter where the rains have yet to come, and extreme Santa Ana winds reaching 100 mph in some places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-051-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign from the Lincoln Avenue Water Company reminds all to conserve water in downtown Altadena 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>“Unfortunately, people don’t tend to think of winter as fire season, but in California, fire season is any time it is dry enough, and there is fuel,” Kolden said. “The Santa Ana event just provided the blowtorch that makes the fires uncontrollable, and unfortunately, we will not see containment until after the winds die down later this week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires in densely populated areas like those burning in Los Angeles can and have occurred in the Bay Area. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893199/the-oakland-hills-fire-transformed-firefighting-along-a-citys-edge-in-california\">1991 Tunnel Fire\u003c/a> in the Oakland and Berkeley hills killed 25 people and destroyed nearly 3,500 structures, and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa left 22 dead and obliterated almost 6,000 structures. Both of those fires ignited in October, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is naturally adapted to fire, and it’s a part of our natural ecosystem,” said Michael Gollner, a researcher and fire expert at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021536 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireLACountyAP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the conditions fueling Southern California fires are a perfect storm of dry fuels, warm weather and high winds, Gollner said all of those factors are a part of Northern California’s climatology, too, and they “can and will line up someday up here again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Abatzoglou, a climatology professor at UC Merced, said it’s likely more common for those conditions to come together in Southern California than in the northern part of the state, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020521/winds-raise-extreme-fire-risk-in-southern-california-but-bay-area-is-spared-by-rain\">the rainy season\u003c/a> typically starts quite a bit earlier than in Southern California. And Southern California then has just that many more opportunities for dry conditions to collide with Santa Ana winds and arid ignitions,” he said. For the Bay Area, “the risk is there, but it’s certainly less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaitlyn Trudeau, a researcher at the nonprofit Climate Central, said there is no longer a fire season, and people need to adjust accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s important is that people understand that these risks exist at all times of year,” she said. “There’s not a particular span of months where you don’t need to worry about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trudeau spoke with KQED just minutes after seeing an image of her grandfather’s charred-out home for the first time. 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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks before the devastating fires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021203/widespread-scope-southern-california-fires-shown-satellite-images\">ravaging Los Angeles\u003c/a>, the city’s fire chief warned that funding cuts would hurt the department’s wildfire response. It’s a message that echoes in Oakland, where the Fire Department is facing massive budget reductions — and some city leaders are hoping the disaster in L.A. will be a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted Tuesday, overwhelming firefighters and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020808/as-la-fires-rage-harrowing-evacuations-play-out-on-traffic-choked-roads\">burning thousands of homes\u003c/a>, reports of fire budget cuts flooded online discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Los Angeles cut $17.6 million from the Fire Department, according to records from the city controller’s office. Mayor Karen Bass referred to the elimination of some vacant positions as a “reset” and said she didn’t believe it affected the Fire Department’s response this week, and L.A. Councilmember Bob Blumenfield’s office noted that a union contract passed in November belatedly boosted the budget, going to wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as recently as December, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned in a memo to the board of fire commissioners that the cuts would “limit the Department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” The reductions included $7 million for overtime training hours, she said, and funding for 61 civilian positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where many are familiar with the devastation that fire can wreak in densely populated hills, severe budget cuts forced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">the closure of two fire stations\u003c/a> this week, in addition to one already closed for repairs. Four more could shutter next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, is one of two stations scheduled to close until June. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fire officials in the city say the cuts would decimate Oakland’s ability to protect itself from future blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Closing four more firehouses would be the end of fire protection as we know it in Oakland,” said Councilmember Zac Unger, who worked as a city firefighter until retiring from the role 10 days ago to take his council seat. “There is no way to close seven firehouses and not have devastating impacts on both the citizens and on firefighter safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unger, along with Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, said the City Council was working to restore fire services. Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, whose district includes one of the shuttered fire stations, said officials hoped to keep the closures “as brief as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/IMG_7960-1020x764.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the final decision isn’t the council’s to make. When it approved then-Mayor Sheng Thao’s budget in July, the council gave budget administrator Bradley Johnson permission to select from a menu of cuts under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">a contingency plan triggered in December\u003c/a> by the stalled sale of Oakland’s stake in the Coliseum. Johnson moved forward with $5.5 million in fire cuts. The second phase, expected to save $7 million more, could begin in February, and station closures could last the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stations shuttered Monday are two of the closest to the hills, where many residents are still terrified by memories of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893199/the-oakland-hills-fire-transformed-firefighting-along-a-citys-edge-in-california\">1991 Oakland Hills firestorm\u003c/a>. The Tunnel Fire, as it was officially known, was one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/about-us/stories/oakland-hills-firestorm-forward\">most destructive\u003c/a> in California’s history. After a small fire broke out on private land, 70 mph winds caused flames to rip through the hills, burning houses and cars. More than 4,500 firefighters from across Northern California responded to the fire, which destroyed nearly 3,500 homes and killed 25 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Olyer, president of the Oakland firefighters union, had a dire message this week for residents around shuttered Fire Stations 25 and 28, near Joaquin Miller Park and the Lake Chabot golf course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chabot Park, Sequoia, Noland Park, Joaquin Miller, Oakmoor, Skyline, Grass Valley, Woodminster, Lincoln Highlands and Crestmont — hear this clearly: if you live in any of those neighborhoods, be aware that you’ll be waiting a very long time for help,” Olyer said Monday on the steps of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not quickly have firefighter paramedics to help you or your family, and what could have been a small blaze or a small fire near your house will become a conflagration, leaving tragedy in its wake,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olyer said that if all of the cuts go through, closing nearly 30% of the city’s 28 stations, firefighters wouldn’t be able to respond to a fire like October’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">Keller Fire\u003c/a> as effectively as they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Grass Valley Road in the East Oakland Hills. In 2023, Fire Station 28 responded to 405 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Engines 25 and 28 were amongst the first engines on scene on the Keller Fire,” he told KQED. “The boots on the ground right away made the difference between houses on Campus Drive becoming foundations only, kind of like all this stuff happening down in L.A. The sooner you get resources there, the better the outcome is across the board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the calls that engines from Station 28 answer are almost to the end of the county. If farther stations have to respond to emergencies in its zone, response times could climb, Olyer said — from the usual four minutes up to 15 in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews also have expertise in the topography in their districts, an important factor when navigating the windy, narrow roads of the Oakland Hills. Some of the stations closest to the Oakland Hills also have slightly shorter fire trucks to move through the neighborhood more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you have an engine that’s made for driving around on International Boulevard or Telegraph or something trying to wind its way up these hill areas,” Olyer said. “It’s very difficult to maneuver just on a good day, even the smaller engines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Weeks before the devastating fires \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021203/widespread-scope-southern-california-fires-shown-satellite-images\">ravaging Los Angeles\u003c/a>, the city’s fire chief warned that funding cuts would hurt the department’s wildfire response. It’s a message that echoes in Oakland, where the Fire Department is facing massive budget reductions — and some city leaders are hoping the disaster in L.A. will be a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted Tuesday, overwhelming firefighters and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020808/as-la-fires-rage-harrowing-evacuations-play-out-on-traffic-choked-roads\">burning thousands of homes\u003c/a>, reports of fire budget cuts flooded online discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Los Angeles cut $17.6 million from the Fire Department, according to records from the city controller’s office. Mayor Karen Bass referred to the elimination of some vacant positions as a “reset” and said she didn’t believe it affected the Fire Department’s response this week, and L.A. Councilmember Bob Blumenfield’s office noted that a union contract passed in November belatedly boosted the budget, going to wage increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as recently as December, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned in a memo to the board of fire commissioners that the cuts would “limit the Department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” The reductions included $7 million for overtime training hours, she said, and funding for 61 civilian positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where many are familiar with the devastation that fire can wreak in densely populated hills, severe budget cuts forced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">the closure of two fire stations\u003c/a> this week, in addition to one already closed for repairs. Four more could shutter next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00097-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, is one of two stations scheduled to close until June. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fire officials in the city say the cuts would decimate Oakland’s ability to protect itself from future blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Closing four more firehouses would be the end of fire protection as we know it in Oakland,” said Councilmember Zac Unger, who worked as a city firefighter until retiring from the role 10 days ago to take his council seat. “There is no way to close seven firehouses and not have devastating impacts on both the citizens and on firefighter safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unger, along with Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, said the City Council was working to restore fire services. Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, whose district includes one of the shuttered fire stations, said officials hoped to keep the closures “as brief as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the final decision isn’t the council’s to make. When it approved then-Mayor Sheng Thao’s budget in July, the council gave budget administrator Bradley Johnson permission to select from a menu of cuts under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">a contingency plan triggered in December\u003c/a> by the stalled sale of Oakland’s stake in the Coliseum. Johnson moved forward with $5.5 million in fire cuts. The second phase, expected to save $7 million more, could begin in February, and station closures could last the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stations shuttered Monday are two of the closest to the hills, where many residents are still terrified by memories of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893199/the-oakland-hills-fire-transformed-firefighting-along-a-citys-edge-in-california\">1991 Oakland Hills firestorm\u003c/a>. The Tunnel Fire, as it was officially known, was one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/about-us/stories/oakland-hills-firestorm-forward\">most destructive\u003c/a> in California’s history. After a small fire broke out on private land, 70 mph winds caused flames to rip through the hills, burning houses and cars. More than 4,500 firefighters from across Northern California responded to the fire, which destroyed nearly 3,500 homes and killed 25 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Olyer, president of the Oakland firefighters union, had a dire message this week for residents around shuttered Fire Stations 25 and 28, near Joaquin Miller Park and the Lake Chabot golf course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chabot Park, Sequoia, Noland Park, Joaquin Miller, Oakmoor, Skyline, Grass Valley, Woodminster, Lincoln Highlands and Crestmont — hear this clearly: if you live in any of those neighborhoods, be aware that you’ll be waiting a very long time for help,” Olyer said Monday on the steps of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not quickly have firefighter paramedics to help you or your family, and what could have been a small blaze or a small fire near your house will become a conflagration, leaving tragedy in its wake,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olyer said that if all of the cuts go through, closing nearly 30% of the city’s 28 stations, firefighters wouldn’t be able to respond to a fire like October’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010151/oakland-fire-spreads-to-nearby-homes-amid-dry-windy-conditions\">Keller Fire\u003c/a> as effectively as they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 28 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Grass Valley Road in the East Oakland Hills. 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"content": "\u003cp>As devastating fires continue to burn in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a>, state lawmakers have moved quickly to secure federal aid — help that some fear could be delayed or cut off in a future disaster under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palisades and Eaton fires, which began Tuesday and spread rapidly during strong winds, have destroyed thousands of homes and forced over 100,000 residents to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration on Wednesday after several California representatives and Gov. Gavin Newsom urged the president to swiftly respond to the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t take more than a text message to get [Fire Management Assistance Grants] approved, which means we’re reimbursed for the vast majority of these costs. No politics, no hand wringing, no kissing of the feet,” Newsom said during a press conference on Tuesday. “Emergency proclamations are being drafted as we speak, and I just want to thank the president because that’s something I don’t take for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Biden pledged that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/biden-to-address-the-nation-about-la-fires\">federal government\u003c/a> would cover 100% of the costs associated with the wildfires. He also noted that all possible resources are being sent to California to help with firefighting and rescue efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12021339 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden delivers remarks regarding the ongoing wildfires impacting Southern California alongside Gov. Gavin Newsom at Santa Monica Fire Department Station 5 in Santa Monica, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D–San José), who signed the letter to Biden, said his quick response “will accelerate the assistance that is so desperately needed.” But she also acknowledged that Biden only has a few more days left in office. Once his term ends this month, it will be President-elect Donald Trump who is in charge of approving emergency aid distribution on the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first term as president and throughout his most recent campaign, Trump frequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014403/can-trump-really-withhold-fire-relief-from-california-hes-tried-it-before\">threatened\u003c/a> to limit and even cut the amount of financial aid going to California for disaster recovery, decisions that would be well within his authority as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a natural disaster occurs, states can seek federal assistance through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-stafford.pdf\">Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act\u003c/a>, a law that designed the process by which states can request financial aid in times of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, state officials proclaim a state of emergency. 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When eastern Washington also experienced a massive wildfire in 2020, Trump refused to approve any federal assistance, allegedly due to his conflicts with Washington Gov. 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The White House did declare a disaster yesterday and they’re starting the process of determining whether funding can go to specific areas,” Sedlar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “If this was happening in February, we would be having a very different conversation because there’s a lot of unpredictability around Trump. But because Biden is still in office, California is likely to get that federal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedlar and Collier urged state officials and residents to begin thinking about mitigation and risk management when it comes to addressing natural disasters and wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re playing defense, and we need to start playing offense. We need to start building better homes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t take more than a text message to get [Fire Management Assistance Grants] approved, which means we’re reimbursed for the vast majority of these costs. No politics, no hand wringing, no kissing of the feet,” Newsom said during a press conference on Tuesday. “Emergency proclamations are being drafted as we speak, and I just want to thank the president because that’s something I don’t take for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Biden pledged that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/biden-to-address-the-nation-about-la-fires\">federal government\u003c/a> would cover 100% of the costs associated with the wildfires. He also noted that all possible resources are being sent to California to help with firefighting and rescue efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12021339 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfiresJoeBidenAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden delivers remarks regarding the ongoing wildfires impacting Southern California alongside Gov. 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Once his term ends this month, it will be President-elect Donald Trump who is in charge of approving emergency aid distribution on the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his first term as president and throughout his most recent campaign, Trump frequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014403/can-trump-really-withhold-fire-relief-from-california-hes-tried-it-before\">threatened\u003c/a> to limit and even cut the amount of financial aid going to California for disaster recovery, decisions that would be well within his authority as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a natural disaster occurs, states can seek federal assistance through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-stafford.pdf\">Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act\u003c/a>, a law that designed the process by which states can request financial aid in times of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, state officials proclaim a state of emergency. Then, the governor can look to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a disaster declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon determining that a declaration is warranted, FEMA’s recommendation is brought to the Secretary of Homeland Security, who then brings it to the president for final approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\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\">\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>Federal aid can help with cash assistance for people who have been evacuated or lost their homes, as well as expedite the process of debris removal and other assistive measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the catastrophic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> in 2018 and the major wildfires in 2020, Trump resisted providing aid before eventually capitulating. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Read our story on the harrowing evacuations in Pacific Palisades \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020808/as-la-fires-rage-harrowing-evacuations-play-out-on-traffic-choked-roads\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County firestorm continues to rage, taking at least five lives, causing injuries and destroying thousands of buildings. Many homes in some of the most affected areas are covered by the California FAIR plan, the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992401/homeowners-insurance-market-stretched-even-thinner-as-2-more-companies-leave-california\">insurer of last resort\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires could further destabilize an already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">rickety insurance market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of the disaster threatens to undermine the fledgling progress state officials have made in attracting insurance companies back to the California market. In the past year, officials have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906641/california-regulators-roll-out-plan-to-stabilize-home-insurance-market\">overhauled insurance regulations\u003c/a>, working to increase coverage availability to consumers in high-risk areas while responding to long-standing industry requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just going to be in a challenging situation. I think it’s not clear yet how challenging it will be,” said Michael Wara, energy and climate expert at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too early to assess the extent of the destruction, but the fires are likely to be one of the most damaging events in state history. JP Morgan issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.investors.com/news/top-california-property-insurer-earns-double-upgrade-from-goldman/\">preliminary estimate of $10 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the final tally, the fires are sure to be a major hit to large insurers like State Farm, Allstate and Farmers, and to the California FAIR Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fires have hit one of the highest value areas,” said Ben Collier, professor of risk management and insurance at Temple University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR Plan lists Pacific Palisades as one of the areas where it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfpnet.com/key-statistics-data/\">most financially exposed\u003c/a>, responsible for up to $5.9 billion. Last year, Victoria Roach, the FAIR Plan president, said the plan has about $200 million in surplus and $2.5 billion in reinsurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0300-insurers/0200-bulletins/bulletin-notices-commiss-opinion/upload/BULLETIN_2024-8__RE_INSURER_RECOUPMENT_PROCEDURES_IN_THE_HIGHLY_UNLIKELY_EVENT_OF_ASSESSMENT_BY_THE_FAIR_PLAN.pdf\">clarified\u003c/a> what would happen if the FAIR Plan does not have enough money to pay out claims. Other insurance companies will have to pick up the bill — and will be allowed to pass some of the costs onto customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"People fleeing among cars with a tree and orange smoky haze and flames in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People flee from the advancing Palisades Fire, by car and on foot, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state protects consumers from any changes to their insurance policy for one year following a disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement that his department is committed to ensuring consumers “receive the services you contracted for with your insurance company,” adding that companies are pledging their commitment to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will hold them accountable for the promises they have made,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s too early to tell if the fires will eclipse the available FAIR Plan funds, if they did, “then the next round of claims would be paid by a combination of insurance companies and from other policyholders of private insurance companies,” Collier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can already be hard to get insurance in the state, he said, “and this is likely to make the situation notably worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of these fires breaking out, internet rumors began to circulate that these fires would bankrupt insurance companies, including the FAIR Plan. That is unlikely to happen, experts said, because insurance carriers have planned for this contingency.[aside postID=news_12020835 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSoCal3AP.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, a FAIR Plan spokesperson said they are aware of what they called “misinformation being posted online” but added that it is “too early to provide loss estimates as claims are just beginning to be submitted and processed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FAIR Plan has payment mechanisms in place, including reinsurance, to ensure all covered claims are paid,” the statement said. “The FAIR Plan remains vigilant in working with its customers in these challenging times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State’s insurance regulators have been implementing a massive overhaul of insurance rules designed to ease the crisis in the insurance markets and to allow companies to charge what they think aligns with the risk exposure. In response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017886/farmers-insurance-to-step-up-coverage-in-california-a-sign-tide-is-turning\">some companies are loosening up\u003c/a>, offering more coverage to attract customers. The fires could backtrack that progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past year has been accompanied by eye-popping rate increases, particularly in areas with wildfire risk. But Wara said the worst is likely ahead of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rate increases we’ve had, which have been extreme, especially for the people in the high-risk areas, such as the Sierra or Pacific Palisades, but that is a preview at this point of what is to come,” Wara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers and insurance companies are likely to feel the pain. Companies often use reinsurance — insurance for insurers — to guarantee they’ll have enough money to pay out claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Insurance companies in a catastrophe are like a bank during a bank run,” Wara said. “And as long as you have enough money in the vault to survive the bank run, you’re OK. But reinsurance means you can keep less money in your own vault because someone else’s vault is available to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter jumps over a low wall and toward a burning house.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-14-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter jumps over a fence while fighting the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, seeing this destruction could prompt reinsurance companies to pull back further from California, meaning insurance companies either have to raise that capital themselves or further reduce their exposure in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state regulates insurance companies, it does not get to exert the same level of control over reinsurers. Nor does the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance is already pricey in California. Make it much worse, and it could become too expensive for many people to own a home here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are places in Florida where insurance costs $50,000 a year,” Wara said. “If that were to happen in California in the wildland-urban interface, we would be in a very different kind of challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been, until now, an insurance problem could balloon into a homeownership problem, where middle- and working-class people can’t own homes because mortgage, insurance and property taxes simply become too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And [then] you have to sell your house,” Wara said. “And you find that your home value has gone down a lot because the cost of owning your home, including taxes and insurance, is a lot higher than it used to be. And that’s where we might be heading. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Californians pay hefty fees for electricity in large part because of wildfires. Read KQED’s coverage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020600/californians-pay-hefty-fee-electricity-rates-likely-keep-increasing\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, Vidda Brough heard a large crash outside of her home. Hurricane-force winds swept through her street in Pacific Palisades, an affluent residential neighborhood with sweeping views of Los Angeles. Spanish tiles flew off of Brough’s roof, crashing to the driveway below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she stepped outside to investigate, she smelled smoke. When she went back inside, she looked out a window facing the hillside behind her house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange flames roared in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brough built her dream home, one that she and her husband had designed together, more than 40 years ago. During the Old Topanga Fire in 1993, her husband stayed behind to protect the property with a garden hose. Brough, a retired public school teacher, had never seen anything like the blaze that threatened her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized I needed to get out,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020750/wildfires-ravage-los-angeles-thousands-evacuated\">80,000 residents of Los Angeles County\u003c/a> were under orders to evacuate as of Wednesday afternoon, including 30,000 Pacific Palisades residents, after a destructive series of fires broke out Tuesday and exploded in intensity Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, at least five people have been killed, and more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have been scorched, making this one of the most destructive firestorms in recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brough said she was shaking as she got in her car. She managed to drive down a winding road to scenic Sunset Boulevard. As she drove, she stayed on the phone with her son, Branden, whose presence helped keep her calm, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers routed her west, towards the Pacific Palisades Highlands neighborhood. But after about a half mile, she said first responders rerouted her east. Eventually, she made it to her brother’s house in South Pasadena, where she reunited with her husband. The trip took eight hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008811327495-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Eaton Fire burns a vehicle Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the foothills northeast of Los Angeles, the deadly Eaton Fire has grown to more than 10,000 acres, burning through Altadena and Pasadena, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Evacuation orders expanded to include communities in eastern Glendale, La Cañada Flintridge and northern Monrovia. In the San Fernando Valley, the Hurst Fire has burned nearly 1,000 acres near the suburban community of Sylmar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the Pacific Palisades, the Palisades fire has consumed over 11,000 acres, moving westward along the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of cars were abandoned along Palisades Drive and Sunset Boulevard as people fled on foot because of the traffic jam. Responders with the Los Angeles County Fire Department were seen pushing cars aside with a bulldozer in order to create a path for emergency vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenichi Haskett, a section chief of L.A. County Fire in Palisades, described navigating the Palisades as similar to some of the hillier neighborhoods in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a foothills community where we had to evacuate 25,000 people who all jammed into the road together and created a bottleneck,” Haskett said. “Many left their cars and ran or walked away, which is not a bad idea, but it left a traffic jam and was difficult for our firefighters to get out.”[aside postID=news_12020835 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-scaled.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, encountering \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11743347/california-towns-at-risk-from-fires-often-have-few-ways-out\">gridlocked roads\u003c/a> is not uncommon during emergency evacuations in California, especially in cities with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946668/data-pinpoints-14-california-communities-with-most-limited-emergency-escape-routes\">limited evacuation points\u003c/a>. During the catastrophic Camp Fire in 2019, over 25,000 Paradise residents attempted to evacuate the area only to get caught in a massive traffic jam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to wildfire evacuations expert Tom Cova, many towns only have one or two evacuation routes that residents can use to leave during an emergency. The problem occurs when thousands of people attempt to evacuate at the same time, leading to road congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like being at a concert, the density of these communities, and if you leave early, you just stand up and walk out,” Cova, a professor of geography at the University of Utah, said. “But if you delay your departure, if you’re spending a lot of time gathering things and maybe hesitating whether or not you’re at risk, then you’ll find yourself in the midst of the main travel pull.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cova said many of the cities and towns being impacted by these fires grow organically with little consideration for how roads would need to operate during emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, gridlock is not new to Los Angeles,” said Paul Friedman, chief technical officer of Streetlight Data, a San Francisco-based traffic analytics company. “Due to urban sprawl, poor urban planning, poor zoning laws, houses are very spread out and people need more road capacity per person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “If you just have one hour to get everybody out, you’re going to have problems. These roads are not designed to empty a community in one hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946668/data-pinpoints-14-california-communities-with-most-limited-emergency-escape-routes\">2019 study published\u003c/a> by Streetlight Data identified 100 communities in the country that have the fewest evacuation routes, and California had 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only a few things city officials can do to avoid issues of gridlock and congestion during emergencies, Friedman said. The first would be to issue evacuation and emergency warnings earlier in order to give residents more time to leave. The second would be to transition more two-way roads into one-way roads. The California Highway Patrol did a similar thing in Santa Cruz after the CZU Lightning Complex fires in 2020, Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation might be the gravest danger associated with wildfires, according to Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at UC Berkeley. Stephens said that while evacuating an area may sometimes be necessary, doing so can leave people exposed to smoke and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All it takes is one accident, a smoky road or maybe a power line down, and essentially, you’ve just blocked that evacuation route,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020989\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25008788861309-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Mantia, left, and her boyfriend Thomas, who only gave his first, return to Mantia’s fire-damaged home after the Eaton Fire swept through on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, for people in L.A. County who are currently facing evacuation notices and imminent fire warnings, the experts interviewed by KQED urged residents to listen to law enforcement and city officials and to follow all warnings and instructions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re in a warning area, you need to be ready to go. An order means you need to go,” Haskett said. “We want people to heed the evacuation orders and be ready to go once that evacuation order has been issued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brough is waiting to see whether she will have to evacuate again — and when she will be able to return home. Although she always has a bag packed for emergencies, when she fled, she left without her purse and her wedding rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son went online to find evidence of whether or not the home his parents built was still intact. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/carterevans/?hl=en\">Carter Evans\u003c/a>, a CBS journalist who lives in their neighborhood, went live on Instagram in a video where first responders handed him a garden hose to help fight flames. In the video, Brough’s son could see his parents’ home still standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone has been so lucky. Ed Stark, who lives less than a mile from Brough, received a fateful email on Wednesday afternoon from his neighbor: Stark’s house had burned to ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were no fire trucks around,” Stark, 75, told KQED. “We were unable to get back and remove anything. We have nothing from the house but the clothes on our backs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stark, a trial attorney and an adjunct law professor, said he and his wife had just started fixing up their house. He had 25 years of articles and course materials saved on his laptop and iPad that were incinerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are grateful that we are alive and that our children are alive. And God forbid, had we lost a loved one, it would be much worse,” Stark said. “But it’s like getting hit in the head with a hammer. It’s just a shock to the entire system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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These roads are not designed to empty a community in one hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946668/data-pinpoints-14-california-communities-with-most-limited-emergency-escape-routes\">2019 study published\u003c/a> by Streetlight Data identified 100 communities in the country that have the fewest evacuation routes, and California had 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only a few things city officials can do to avoid issues of gridlock and congestion during emergencies, Friedman said. The first would be to issue evacuation and emergency warnings earlier in order to give residents more time to leave. The second would be to transition more two-way roads into one-way roads. The California Highway Patrol did a similar thing in Santa Cruz after the CZU Lightning Complex fires in 2020, Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation might be the gravest danger associated with wildfires, according to Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at UC Berkeley. 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Then there’s a plunging and unusual jet stream, and lots of power lines flapping in those powerful gusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that’s what is turning wildfires into a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-things-to-know-winds-f93d41dc901e352b63e86ab67ef7790e\">deadly urban conflagration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Speed is the killer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Tiny, mighty and fast” fires have blazed through America’s west in the last couple of decades as the world warms, said University of Colorado fire scientist Jennifer Balch. 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If firefighters can get to the flames within 10 minutes or so, it’s spread can be contained, but “15 minutes, it’s too late and it’s gone. The horse has left the barn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no sure link between Santa Ana winds — gusts from the east that come down the mountains, gain speed and hit the coast — to human-caused climate change, said Daniel Swain, climate scientist for the California Institute for Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a condition that led to those winds is a big plunge in the temperature of the jet stream — the river of air that moves weather systems across the globe — which helped bring cold air to the eastern two-thirds of the nation, said University of California Merced climate and fire scientist John Abatzoglou. Other scientists have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/polar-vortex-chilly-cold-climate-change-frigid-5dd0dcb49a7ead488e221e8c5d9edc8f\">preliminarily linked\u003c/a> those jet stream plunges to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Ana winds are happening later and later in the year, moving more from the drier fall to the wetter winter, Keeley said. 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