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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>\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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In a review of 11 wildfires in California, \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt5w85z07g/qt5w85z07g.pdf?t=q7c4sj\">one study found\u003c/a> that some local governments were not prepared, and “nearly all agencies do not have the public resources to adequately and swiftly evacuate all populations in danger.” Other studies have found many communities around the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946668/data-pinpoints-14-california-communities-with-most-limited-emergency-escape-routes\">lack adequate routes for evacuation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What communities can do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Technology is coming to the aid of some communities. For those that can afford commissioning studies, computer simulations can show how long it will take to evacuate neighborhoods and where the critical bottlenecks are. Some systems are being used by fire departments during wildfires to make evacuations more efficient. 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The pause occurred during the crucial fall window for controlled burns, raising concerns that it could increase long-term fire risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story has been circulating on the internet this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires in Los Angeles have been politicized online as people search for politicians and policies to blame — and for evidence to reinforce personal beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the U.S. Forest Service had continued to allow burning, it would not have prevented this week’s devastation from deadly fires that have destroyed thousands of homes. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021203/widespread-scope-southern-california-fires-shown-satellite-images\">fires we’re seeing\u003c/a> are primarily spreading through urban neighborhoods, with the possible exception of the Eaton Fire, which is burning, in part, on federal forest lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the wind, weather and location of the fires, it’s unlikely a controlled burn would have stopped the disaster. The houses and surrounding vegetation are fuels in communities that were not designed for fire resilience when they were planned decades ago.[aside postID=science_1965575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/102523-Paradise-Rebuild-AP-CM-02-copy.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s vegetation all around homes and trees overlapping, and [residents] love the beauty and the look of that,” said Michael Gollner, a researcher and fire expert at UC Berkeley. “But when a fire comes through, it has a clear path to just keep propagating through the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what would have helped? Living in communities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1965575/and-now-fire-season-heres-how-to-prepare\">prepared for fire\u003c/a>. How to prepare isn’t a mystery. It just takes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887158/in-california-restoring-our-relationship-with-fire-is-possible\">convincing residents\u003c/a> to get their communities involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that emerging from this [disaster] can be a much more serious conversation around fuels and community design,” said Michael Wara, a climate and energy expert at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and the federal government have poured a lot of money into fire resilience, but there is room for much more, Wara said. For example, the state has taken steps to ramp up prescribed fire, but there have not been many burns next to communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been more investment in fuels management crews, but less investment in enforcing tough, defensible space codes, like having a five-foot buffer of non-combustible material around a house, what experts call “Zone 0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an area rebuilds after a fire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/building-standards/state-housing-law/wildland-urban-interface/docs/2010-part-2-cbc-ch7a.pdf\">adopting stringent requirements \u003c/a>— such as using fire-resistant materials and requiring 30 feet between buildings — helps neighborhoods prepare for the next fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s needed is community support for fire resilience. Some communities oppose vegetation removal or defensible space inspections or prescribed fire near homes. Some areas that have rebuilt chose to waive certain requirements, including parts of Santa Rosa that burned in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021207\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-030-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena resident Herb Wilson and his wife, Loyda Wilson, survey their home that was destroyed in the Eaton Fire northeast of Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. The couple was on vacation in Hawaii when the fire broke out, so they were not able to retrieve any belongings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While adopting new fire safety codes can be expensive and inconvenient, according to Gollner, he hopes the impacted Los Angeles communities will embrace them “so that if there’s a future fire in this area, we no longer would see such a destructive event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re going to have available, affordable insurance in California — not just now, but in 10 years as climate change gets worse — we need to do that stuff now,” Wara said, adding that there is only so much politicians can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t blame the politicians for that at all. It is about the people in communities,” he continued. “It is about community consensus and community solidarity, people taking responsibility for doing the work and for helping their neighbors to do the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires that ignited in the San Bernardino National Forest last year were successfully fought, in part, because of prescribed burns by the U.S. Forest Service. The Line Fire threatened the Angelus Oaks community in early September 2024, but it slowed, and firefighters were able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/features/flame-without-fuel\">control and redirect\u003c/a> it when it entered a burn scar from the previous June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saved that community using prescribed fire,” Wara said. “We need more of that. And the real barrier there is not the money, it’s not the agency, it’s the community acceptance.”[aside postID=news_11887158 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66829_230626-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-53-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles area, Malibu fires have become notorious. The despair and folly of continually rebuilding what continually gets burned is captured in \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3984830\">\u003cem>The Case for Letting Malibu Burn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the provocative 1995 essay by Mike Davis, former writer and professor at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has occurred across this state at different times throughout history and will keep happening if we’re not prepared for it,” Gollner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stringent codes guiding construction and landscaping can prevent the vast majority of ignition spread and give firefighters a much better chance of saving communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we prevent 95% of the ignitions — it doesn’t have to be perfect — then firefighters will do a great job catching the few [ignitions] that slip through,” Gollner said. “But we have to help them. When there’s hundreds or thousands of structures igniting, they cannot handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Southern California is fighting multiple major wildfires, exacerbated by hurricane-strength winds that have resulted in red flag warnings and evacuation orders in multiple zones. The current fires are the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades, the Eaton Fire, the Hurst Fire in the Sylmar area and the Tyler Fire in Riverside County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offshoots of Los Angeles are home to many cultural institutions renowned for everything from iconic Hollywood nightlife to groundbreaking scientific research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/xse37/13/?initialWidth=953&childId=responsive-embed-xse37&parentTitle=How%20the%20Los%20Angeles%20fires%20are%20affecting%20several%20major%20landmarks%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F01%2F08%2Fnx-s1-5252587%2Flos-angeles-fires-landmarks-culture-arts\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where several of them stand as of Wednesday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will Rogers State Historic Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former home\u003c/a> of actor, radio personality and humorist Will Rogers, a 186-acre ranch that was on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, was gutted by the Palisades fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on social media posted photos and videos of the site, which showed only chimneys poking up through rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The estate and historic park were home to many Western artifacts, as well as objects from Will Rogers’ daily life. In the 1930s, he was Hollywood’s highest-paid film star. His widow, Betty Rogers, had donated the house and stables to Californian in 1944.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California State Parks \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a>, horses and some of the cultural artifacts at the Will Rogers State Historic Park were safely evacuated ahead of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Topanga State Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of the Topanga State Park — a national park located within the city of Los Angeles that is known for its scenic hiking and mountain bike trails — were also devastated by the Palisades fire. The historic \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topanga Ranch Motel\u003c/a>, which was once owned by newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst, was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset Boulevard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Hollywood strip, known for its nightlife and restaurant scene, was gridlocked Tuesday by Los Angeles residents fleeing the Palisades area. Officials told those on Sunset Boulevard to abandon their cars and walk to safety. The Los Angeles Fire Department later moved the abandoned vehicles to make way for firefighters. The stretch of Sunset Boulevard between San Vicente and Crescent Heights remains closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25.jpg\" alt=\"Cars jammed on a road with smoke all around.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People evacuate on Sunset Boulevard from the Palisades Fire on Jan. 7, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Getty Villa and Getty Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some trees and vegetation were burned on the site of the Getty Villa, a Greco-Roman art museum on the Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades. The museum \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DEi-ISkvlta/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> that collections and staff were so far unharmed and that fire and smoke mitigation plans were in place. Both the Getty Villa and the Getty Center, which is not in the current fire zone, will remain closed until at least Monday, Jan. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Orange smoky glowing sky above and behind an estate, with a stone sign outside that says 'The Getty Villa'\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames from the Palisades Fire reach the grounds of the Getty Villa Museum on the Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on Jan. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palisades Charter High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A filming location for popular shows and films such as \u003cem>Teen Wolf, Carrie, \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Freaky Friday\u003c/em>, Palisades Charter High School has been severely damaged by the Palisades fire. Students and faculty are still on winter break, scheduled through Jan. 10. According to the high school’s website, they will provide updates for students and families prior to the start of the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a research hub for robotic space exploration, is included in the areas with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-07/eaton-fire-evacuations-pasadena-altadena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> due to the Eaton fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Universal Studios and CityWalk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not under mandatory evacuation, the Universal Studios theme park and the attached dining, shopping and entertainment plaza, Universal CityWalk, are closed Wednesday “as a result of the extreme winds and fire conditions,” the studios \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UniStudios/status/1876995419240030363\">announced\u003c/a> Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Hammer Museum at UCLA\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hammer Museum at UCLA, a contemporary art museum, is \u003ca href=\"https://hammer.ucla.edu/visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also closed\u003c/a> due to the nearby fires and severe weather warnings. The \u003ca href=\"https://bso.ucla.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of California, Los Angeles\u003c/a> campus, where the museum is located, has canceled classes for undergraduates and moved graduate classes online as of Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Rose Bowl\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday morning, the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena is not considered at high risk of being impacted by the fires. The stadium is being used as a large animal evacuation center, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LHSLASD/status/1876923497609363573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-26.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-26-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-26-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-26-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-26-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial image shows smoke covering the hillsides behind the Rose Bowl stadium from wildfires, including the Eaton Fire, at sunset over Pasadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extensive collections in the library, museum, and gardens in San Marino, known as “\u003ca href=\"https://huntington.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The H\u003c/a>,” remain safe as of early Thursday morning. The campus remains closed at least through Friday, Jan. 10. A few trees were lost and uprooted in the area due to high winds and the property sustained minor damage from falling debris, the Huntington \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DEllwbDsY-a/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared on Instagram\u003c/a> on Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eames House\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, the architectural landmark, famously made with experimental industrial materials, is at risk in the Palisades fire. The property, also known as Case Study House No. 8, posted an update to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stories/eameshouse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram stories\u003c/a> on Wednesday morning that the house remained unharmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warner Bros.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Warner Bros. Studio in Hollywood, which offers tours — including backlots and sets from beloved television shows — is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbstudiotour.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed Wednesday\u003c/a> due to the fire conditions and strong winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, located in Griffith Park, closed to the public \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LAZoo/status/1876685554424688818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Tuesday\u003c/a> and remains \u003ca href=\"https://lazoo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed\u003c/a> Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Griffith Observatory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popular scientific observatory and planetarium located at the top of the Hollywood Hills is \u003ca href=\"https://griffithobservatory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed Wednesday\u003c/a> due to the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1061\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1019.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from wildfires hangs in the sky over Griffith Observatory on Jan. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Andy Bao/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Empire Polo Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to the annual Coachella Music Festival, the Empire Polo Club in Indio has not reported any closures. The club is about seven miles away from the Tyler fire’s starting point.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hollywood Landmarks\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hollywood Sign\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located in the Hollywood Hills, the iconic Hollywood sign \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DEkmN7NP4n0/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remains closed\u003c/a> as of Thursday morning, along with all of Griffith Park. The Hollywood Sign Trust’s official Instagram account posted an update to their stories on Wednesday night, saying that the sign was not on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hollywood Bowl\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Host to many live music performances since it opened in 1922, the amphitheater received evacuation orders on Wednesday night. According to a post on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DElzAs1pc3r/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram\u003c/a>, all staff has evacuated the premises safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TCL Chinese Theatre and Dolby Theatre \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TCL Chinese Theatre, a movie palace more popularly called Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, has hosted premiers and film festivals since it opened in 1927. The landmark was included in an evacuation zone on Wednesday. The Dolby Theatre, where the Academy Awards are held, was also in that zone. Both theaters closed Wednesday night. There have been no reports of damage and the evacuation orders have been lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Newsroom is following the extreme weather from across the region. Click through to \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>LAist’s coverage\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> for the latest. \u003c/em>\u003cem>Jennifer Vanasco edited this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Southern California is fighting multiple major wildfires, exacerbated by hurricane-strength winds that have resulted in red flag warnings and evacuation orders in multiple zones. The current fires are the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades, the Eaton Fire, the Hurst Fire in the Sylmar area and the Tyler Fire in Riverside County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offshoots of Los Angeles are home to many cultural institutions renowned for everything from iconic Hollywood nightlife to groundbreaking scientific research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/xse37/13/?initialWidth=953&childId=responsive-embed-xse37&parentTitle=How%20the%20Los%20Angeles%20fires%20are%20affecting%20several%20major%20landmarks%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2025%2F01%2F08%2Fnx-s1-5252587%2Flos-angeles-fires-landmarks-culture-arts\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where several of them stand as of Wednesday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will Rogers State Historic Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former home\u003c/a> of actor, radio personality and humorist Will Rogers, a 186-acre ranch that was on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, was gutted by the Palisades fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on social media posted photos and videos of the site, which showed only chimneys poking up through rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The estate and historic park were home to many Western artifacts, as well as objects from Will Rogers’ daily life. In the 1930s, he was Hollywood’s highest-paid film star. His widow, Betty Rogers, had donated the house and stables to Californian in 1944.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California State Parks \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a>, horses and some of the cultural artifacts at the Will Rogers State Historic Park were safely evacuated ahead of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Topanga State Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of the Topanga State Park — a national park located within the city of Los Angeles that is known for its scenic hiking and mountain bike trails — were also devastated by the Palisades fire. The historic \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topanga Ranch Motel\u003c/a>, which was once owned by newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst, was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset Boulevard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Hollywood strip, known for its nightlife and restaurant scene, was gridlocked Tuesday by Los Angeles residents fleeing the Palisades area. Officials told those on Sunset Boulevard to abandon their cars and walk to safety. The Los Angeles Fire Department later moved the abandoned vehicles to make way for firefighters. The stretch of Sunset Boulevard between San Vicente and Crescent Heights remains closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25.jpg\" alt=\"Cars jammed on a road with smoke all around.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People evacuate on Sunset Boulevard from the Palisades Fire on Jan. 7, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Getty Villa and Getty Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some trees and vegetation were burned on the site of the Getty Villa, a Greco-Roman art museum on the Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades. The museum \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DEi-ISkvlta/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> that collections and staff were so far unharmed and that fire and smoke mitigation plans were in place. Both the Getty Villa and the Getty Center, which is not in the current fire zone, will remain closed until at least Monday, Jan. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Orange smoky glowing sky above and behind an estate, with a stone sign outside that says 'The Getty Villa'\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames from the Palisades Fire reach the grounds of the Getty Villa Museum on the Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on Jan. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palisades Charter High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A filming location for popular shows and films such as \u003cem>Teen Wolf, Carrie, \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Freaky Friday\u003c/em>, Palisades Charter High School has been severely damaged by the Palisades fire. Students and faculty are still on winter break, scheduled through Jan. 10. According to the high school’s website, they will provide updates for students and families prior to the start of the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a research hub for robotic space exploration, is included in the areas with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-07/eaton-fire-evacuations-pasadena-altadena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> due to the Eaton fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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For now, however, the National Weather Service is warning of sustained winds up to 40 mph in the region, with gusts up to 80 mph in the area of the wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Wofford, a lead forecaster at the National Weather Service’s office in Oxnard, Calif., says \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/santa-ana-winds-come-back-bringing-the-potential-of-more-fire-weather-this-week\">the Santa Ana winds are most common during the cooler months\u003c/a> from September through May. 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In addition to funneling through the mountains, they went up and over the mountains and then they descended down into the basin area,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is wind gusts as high as 100 mph in some places, he says, adding that the current dry conditions mean, “everything is just primed and ready to go” for wildfires.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12020988,news_12020835,news_12020918\"]“Obviously, we’ve got a zillion cars in the area. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5252370/california-wildfires-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than 30,000 people in Los Angeles County have been ordered to evacuate\u003c/a> as the Palisades Fire, one of several wildfires that broke out on Tuesday morning, blazed through the Pacific Palisades community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by intense Santa Ana winds, the fire has spread over more than 2,900 acres and threatened 13,000 structures; California Gov. Gavin Newsom said during an afternoon press conference that he’s already seen many of them destroyed. The fire remains uncontained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of firefighters have been battling the blaze on foot in the hillsides of the Santa Monica Mountains, where the fire originally broke out, as well as by plane, dropping water and flame retardant. In the Pacific Palisades community, thousands of people have scrambled to escape the flames. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/brief/news/climate-environment/fires-southern-california-gusty-winds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to LAist\u003c/a>, video footage showed drivers on the Pacific Coast Highway fleeing their cars to the ocean at the behest of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, a second major wind-driven fire was burning Tuesday night in Los Angeles County as fierce Santa Ana winds roared across the region. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eaton Fire\u003c/a> had destroyed 400 acres in Altadena, north of Pasadena — an area bordering the Angeles National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuations \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Angeles_NF/status/1876832615484858622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been ordered\u003c/a>. “High winds were driving rapid fire growth, posing a significant threat to nearby communities and making containment efforts challenging,” CalFire \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire/updates/50a2ae08-439c-4864-bd5f-fbede1bc7e59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>. “Firefighters are working aggressively to slow the spread and protect critical infrastructure under extreme conditions. The combination of low humidity, dry fuels, and shifting winds has heightened the potential for spot fires and rapid expansion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions were changing quickly Tuesday night as evacuation areas shifted alongside the fire. Officials warned that the Santa Ana winds were only going to get worse on Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, reaching 100 mph or more. The National Weather Service warned of a “particularly dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very strong gusts and low relative humidity will allow any fires that develop to spread VERY rapidly,” the agency added. On Wednesday, that’s predicted to affect Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find the latest information about the fire’s reach and damage \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/brief/news/climate-environment/fires-southern-california-gusty-winds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from member station LAist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A lone woman on a beach looks over her shoulder at a massive plume of smoke in the near distance.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lone sunbather sits and watches a large plume of smoke from a wildfire rise over the Pacific Palisades in Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Richard Vogel/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighter points hose at flames, surrounded by orange glowing smoke.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter battles the advancing Palisades Fire around a structure 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\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020924\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Man pushes an older woman sitting in a shopping cart away from a plume of smoke along the sidewalk of a beach.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Krausse pushes his mother-in-law in a shopping cart as they evacuate from their home in the Pacific Palisades after a wildfire swept through their neighborhood in Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Richard Vogel/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames engulf a wooded area.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns a property in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 200 acres were burning in Pacific Palisades, an upscale spot with multimillion-dollar homes in the Santa Monica Mountains, shuttering a key highway and blanketing the area with thick smoke. \u003ccite>(David Swanson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young man runs with a worries face past cars on a city street with smoke in the distance.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person flees from an advancing wildfire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020935\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames engulfing a wooded area and structures with a tree in the foreground.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters stage in front of the advancing Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A plume of smoke covers the sun glowing orange above firefighters working with tools to contain the fire.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters work as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(David Swanson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020938\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The wreckage of the foyer of a house with the second floor completely collapsed and a stairway still on fire.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns a residence in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter passes a house with its roof on fire in a suburban street.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residence burns as a firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Eugene Garcia/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a home with furniture all ablaze and more flames seen on the street out of the living room window.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns a residence in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames in foreground with untouched houses behind and and pristine lawns.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames rise as the Palisades Fire advances on homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters protect structures from the advancing Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames and smoke on hilltops on the outskirts of Los Angeles, seen from downtown.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plumes of smoke are seen as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades, as seen from Santa Monica, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Agustin Paullier/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A luxurious swimming pool and manicured lawns with high flames and plumes of smoke only a few hundred yards away.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned buildings and sparked evacuations Tuesday as ‘life threatening’ winds whipped the region. \u003ccite>(David Swanson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020958\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A city street with houses and a church, flames rising behind them, and a person walking in the street in the foreground.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-19-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A passerby walks across the street in Sierra Madre as fire burns in the background. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A suburban street with strong flames encroaching.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-20-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire is seen in Altadena. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, a second major wind-driven fire was burning Tuesday night in Los Angeles County as fierce Santa Ana winds roared across the region. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eaton Fire\u003c/a> had destroyed 400 acres in Altadena, north of Pasadena — an area bordering the Angeles National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuations \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Angeles_NF/status/1876832615484858622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been ordered\u003c/a>. “High winds were driving rapid fire growth, posing a significant threat to nearby communities and making containment efforts challenging,” CalFire \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire/updates/50a2ae08-439c-4864-bd5f-fbede1bc7e59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>. “Firefighters are working aggressively to slow the spread and protect critical infrastructure under extreme conditions. The combination of low humidity, dry fuels, and shifting winds has heightened the potential for spot fires and rapid expansion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions were changing quickly Tuesday night as evacuation areas shifted alongside the fire. Officials warned that the Santa Ana winds were only going to get worse on Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, reaching 100 mph or more. The National Weather Service warned of a “particularly dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very strong gusts and low relative humidity will allow any fires that develop to spread VERY rapidly,” the agency added. On Wednesday, that’s predicted to affect Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find the latest information about the fire’s reach and damage \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/brief/news/climate-environment/fires-southern-california-gusty-winds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from member station LAist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A lone woman on a beach looks over her shoulder at a massive plume of smoke in the near distance.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lone sunbather sits and watches a large plume of smoke from a wildfire rise over the Pacific Palisades in Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Richard Vogel/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighter points hose at flames, surrounded by orange glowing smoke.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter battles the advancing Palisades Fire around a structure 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\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020924\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Man pushes an older woman sitting in a shopping cart away from a plume of smoke along the sidewalk of a beach.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerome Krausse pushes his mother-in-law in a shopping cart as they evacuate from their home in the Pacific Palisades after a wildfire swept through their neighborhood in Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Richard Vogel/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames engulf a wooded area.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns a property in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 200 acres were burning in Pacific Palisades, an upscale spot with multimillion-dollar homes in the Santa Monica Mountains, shuttering a key highway and blanketing the area with thick smoke. \u003ccite>(David Swanson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young man runs with a worries face past cars on a city street with smoke in the distance.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person flees from an advancing wildfire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020935\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames engulfing a wooded area and structures with a tree in the foreground.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters stage in front of the advancing Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A plume of smoke covers the sun glowing orange above firefighters working with tools to contain the fire.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters work as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(David Swanson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020938\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The wreckage of the foyer of a house with the second floor completely collapsed and a stairway still on fire.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns a residence in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter passes a house with its roof on fire in a suburban street.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residence burns as a firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Eugene Garcia/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a home with furniture all ablaze and more flames seen on the street out of the living room window.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palisades Fire burns a residence in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames in foreground with untouched houses behind and and pristine lawns.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames rise as the Palisades Fire advances on homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters protect structures from the advancing Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Flames and smoke on hilltops on the outskirts of Los Angeles, seen from downtown.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plumes of smoke are seen as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades, as seen from Santa Monica, Los Angeles County. \u003ccite>(Agustin Paullier/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A luxurious swimming pool and manicured lawns with high flames and plumes of smoke only a few hundred yards away.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-18-160x107.jpg 160w, 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Gavin Newsom said he saw “many structures already destroyed.” Officials did not give an exact number of structures damaged or destroyed in the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire was not immediately known, and no injuries had been reported, officials said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom warned residents across Southern California not to assume they are out of danger, saying the worst of the winds are expected between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 5 a.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters predicted the windstorm would last for days, producing isolated gusts that could top 100 mph (160 kph) in mountains and foothills — including in areas that haven’t seen substantial rain in months. The National Weather service said it could be the strongest \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-risk-winds-143f37204f2db129444818a9adb1ce0f\">Santa Ana windstorm\u003c/a> in more than a decade across Los Angeles and Ventura counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly half a million utility customers were at risk of having their \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-utilities-fires-weather-california-48e0e49b25ae819cfd70b2ce2ea1d29e\">power shut off\u003c/a> to reduce the risk of equipment sparking blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in western Los Angeles, a fire swiftly consumed nearly 2 square miles (just over 5 square kilometers) of land, sending up a dramatic plume of smoke visible across the city. Residents in Venice Beach, some 6 miles (10 kilometers) away, reported seeing the flames. It was one of several blazes across the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sections of Interstate 10 and the scenic Pacific Coast Highway were closed to all non-essential traffic to aid in evacuation efforts. But other roads were blocked. Some residents jumped out of their vehicles to get out of danger and waited to be picked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Kelsey Trainor said the only road in and out of her neighborhood was completely blocked. Ash fell all around them while fires burned on both sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked across and the fire had jumped from one side of the road to the other side of the road,” Trainor said. “People were getting out of the cars with their dogs and babies and bags, they were crying and screaming. The road was just blocked, like full-on blocked for an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press journalist saw a roof and chimney of one home in flames and another residence where the walls were burning. The neighborhood that borders Malibu about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of downtown LA includes hillside streets of tightly packed homes along winding roads nestled against the Santa Monica Mountains and stretches down to beaches along the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-time Palisades resident Will Adams said he was down in town when the fires started and immediately went to pick his two kids up from St. Matthews Parish’s school, which is now in the line of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife, who was at home, was driving down the main evacuation road for residents in the upper part of the neighborhood when embers flew into her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She vacated her car and left it running,” Adams said. She and many other residents walked down toward the ocean until it was safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='wildfire' label='More Wildfire Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said he had never seen a fire this low into the neighborhood in the 56 years he’s lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is crazy, it’s everywhere, in all the nooks and crannies of the Palisades. One home’s safe, the other one’s up in flames,” Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He watched as the sky turned brown and then black as homes started burning. He could hear loud popping and bangs “like small explosions,” which he said he believes were the transformers exploding on the electric poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actor James Woods posted footage of flames burning through bushes and past palm trees on a hill near his home. The towering orange flames billowed among the landscaped yards between the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Standing in my driveway, getting ready to evacuate,” Woods said in the short video on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actor Steve Guttenberg, who lives in the Pacific Palisades, urged people who abandoned their cars to leave their keys behind so they could be moved to make way for fire trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a parking lot,” Guttenberg told KTLA. “I have friends up there and they can’t evacuate … I’m walking up there as far as I can moving cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erratic weather caused President Joe Biden to cancel plans to travel to inland Riverside County, California, where he was to announce the establishment of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-national-monuments-california-chuckwalla-sattitla-98bc0f78529846b93fcaab0669ae3668\">two new national monuments\u003c/a> in the state. Biden will deliver his remarks in Los Angeles instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District said it was temporarily relocating students from three campuses in the Pacific Palisades area due to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon and MGM Studios canceled a premiere of Jennifer Lopez’s new film “Unstoppable” due to the fires and high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winds will act as an “atmospheric blow-dryer” for vegetation, bringing a long period of fire risk, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California, Los Angeles and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really haven’t seen a season as dry as this one follow a season as wet as the previous one,” Swain said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent dry winds, including the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/santa-ana-winds-california-0b2c68cdc29a7c354238c6ccc09c830c#:~:text=Santa%20Anas%20are%20dry%2C%20warm,the%20Pacific%20into%20the%20region.\">notorious Santa Anas\u003c/a>, have contributed to warmer-than-average temperatures in Southern California, where there’s been very little rain so far this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California hasn’t seen more than 0.1 inches (0.25 centimeters) of rain since early May. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ryan Wedding, who represented Canada in snowboarding at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, is now a fugitive from the U.S. justice system, accused of leading a violent international drug trafficking ring. Wedding allegedly orchestrated the shipment of tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, the U.S. and Canada — and he’s accused of ordering multiple killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cei/ryan-james-wedding\">FBI says Wedding\u003c/a>, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico. A federal arrest warrant was issued for him one month ago in the U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles. He’s been working with the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, the U.S. Attorney’s Office tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grand jury indictment was first filed in June, charging Wedding with numerous felonies. He is the lead defendant in a superseding indictment that was unsealed this week, naming 16 people in all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have triggered an avalanche of violent crimes, including brutal murders,” Matthew Allen, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles division, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/16-defendants-charged-superseding-indictment-alleging-bulk-shipments-cocaine-canada\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “Wedding, the Olympian snowboarder, went from navigating slopes to contouring a life of incessant crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1630x1082+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe7%2Fd5%2F71c8f3374c038c933a2127ba90be%2Fscreenshot-2024-10-18-at-9-18-50-am.png\" alt=\"Ryan Wedding appears on an FBI wanted poster. The U.S. says Wedding, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico.\">\u003cfigcaption>Ryan Wedding appears on an FBI wanted poster. The U.S. says Wedding, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico. \u003ccite> (FBI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authorities allege that the drug conspiracy operated on a large scale, listing locations from Colombia and Mexico to three California counties — Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino — and Miami-Dade County, Fla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents were able to monitor the group’s actions earlier this year thanks to a mole who relayed coded messages about alleged drug shipments sent on the encrypted messaging application Threema, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes an elaborate system in which transportation dispatchers based in Canada allegedly used dollar-bill serial numbers as “tokens” to verify co-conspirators’ identities as they arranged for semi-trucks to carry tons of cocaine from Southern California into Canada. The alleged leaders of the enterprise’s transportation arm agreed to a flat fee of $220,000 Canadian for each load, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the federal investigation — dubbed Operation Giant Slalom, echoing an Olympic event Wedding once competed in — law enforcement agents caught defendants with a total of some 1,800 kilograms (1.8 metric tons) of cocaine, according to the Justice Department. They also seized guns, $255,400 in cash, and more than $3.2 million in cryptocurrency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Operation Giant Slalom’s reach extended to an elite enclave in Aventura, Florida. The FBI raided \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3914-Island-Estates-Dr-Aventura-FL-33160/44060368_zpid/\">a mansion\u003c/a> worth millions of dollars that a defendant, Miami Beach music executive and restaurateur Nahim Jorge Bonilla, \u003ca href=\"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/aventura/article294122259.html\">had reportedly bought\u003c/a> from music star DJ Khaled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedding had sent Bonilla 12 kilograms of cocaine, according to the indictment — 7 that were paid for and 5 on consignment. In June, Wedding threatened to kill Bonilla’s mother if the remaining debt wasn’t settled within three days, court papers say. Within a week, Bonilla allegedly paid Wedding for 2 kilograms of cocaine and sent 20 kilograms of methamphetamine to Montreal, Canada, to settle the rest of the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2028x1178+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2Ffa%2F5ca0d8634c44a77aa45a4a683aef%2Fscreenshot-2024-10-18-at-9-40-42-am.png\" alt=\"Stacks of cocaine are seen in a Justice Department image from Aug. 1, when some 201 kgs of cocaine were seized in Riverside County, Calif., as part of an investigation into an international trafficking ring.\">\u003cfigcaption>Stacks of cocaine are seen in a Justice Department image from Aug. 1, when some 201 kgs of cocaine were seized in Riverside County, California, as part of an investigation into an international trafficking ring. \u003ccite> (U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In other cases, murders were allegedly carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wedding and Clark allegedly directed the Nov. 20, 2023, murders of two members of a family in Ontario, Canada, in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office says. The agency says another person was killed in May over an unpaid debt, allegedly on Wedding and Clark’s orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the 16 defendants have been arrested. They include four Canadians arrested in Ontario this week and three Canadians arrested in the U.S., according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2024/significant-transnational-organized-crime-group-disrupted-rcmp-fbi-and-police-canada-and\">Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\u003c/a> But Wedding and several others remain at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Wedding and several co-defendants “would face a mandatory minimum penalty of life in federal prison on the murder and attempted murder charges,” according to the Justice Department. Other charges in the case also carry similarly stiff penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the second time U.S. authorities have leveled serious drug charges against Wedding: In 2009, he was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and served more than a year in prison. Canadian authorities had also previously investigated him as part of drug inquests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Salt Lake City Games in 2002, Wedding placed 24th in the parallel giant slalom, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/athletes/ryan-wedding\">Olympic bio page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s not just the reiteration of an officer of these statements.[aside tag=\"police, body-camera\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“Rather, it’s actual video footage of who she is and how she presented at the time. (It) gives the court ample basis to find the defendant in violation of probation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On appeal, Gray said the decision to introduce the body camera footage as testimony violated his due process rights. 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"content": "\u003cp>Inland cities including Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia and Riverside — once cheaper options than pricey places such as the Bay Area — are no longer refuges from California’s housing affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, the typical asking rent in these former bastions of relative affordability has exploded by as much as 40%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">data from the real estate listings company Zillow\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s inland rent spike is yet another lasting effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in 2020, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/cities-pandemic-moving-trends\">dense metropolitan coast saw an outflux\u003c/a> of people, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html\">educated white-collar workers\u003c/a>, suddenly untethered from the office, packed their bags in search of cheaper and more socially distanced modes of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many smaller California towns, the surge of new residents competing for housing has placed new financial pressures on lower-income residents, upended local housing markets and, in some cases, shifted the politics around housing and affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/14082160/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Maria, just an hour up the 101 from Santa Barbara, the last three years have been a “perfect storm” for renters, said Victor Honma, who oversees housing vouchers across the region for the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town was awash in suburb-seeking homebuyers from Los Angeles, the Bay Area and nearby Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. The suddenly hot housing market persuaded many longtime local property owners to sell their rentals to the wave of new homebuyers, reducing the rental stock further. And though Santa Maria had always had a “healthy supply of inventory,” said Honma, the available homes ran on the large side, leaving few one-bedroom units to go around for many suddenly desperate renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These trends were in the works prior to 2020, but “the pandemic was a stimulus,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same story in Bakersfield, where rents have jumped 39% since March 2020, as priced-out Angelenos migrated north of the Grapevine, said Stephen Pelz, executive director of the housing authority in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then rising interest rates have cooled the national housing market. But Pelz said the higher cost of borrowing has only added to the woes of Kern County renters: Fewer people purchasing homes has meant more competition for the area’s remaining rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An inevitable consequence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow, said the inland rental crunch is the inevitable result of California’s overall housing shortage, as the affordability crisis along the coast ripples outward. Cities in the Central Valley used to enjoy a healthy “affordability advantage” over coastal urban areas, he said. But that advantage has begun to shrink over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been moving towards that more affordable option when they don’t have anywhere else in California that they can afford,” said Tucker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Tucker, economist, Zillow\"]‘People have been moving towards that more affordable option when they don’t have anywhere else in California that they can afford.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Zillow’s seasonally adjusted “observed rent index” — a kind of gussied-up average that strips out exceptionally pricey or cheap outliers in a given market — the typical rent in the Fresno metropolitan used to be 54% cheaper than that in San Francisco. As of June 2023, that discount dropped to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south in Bakersfield, where renters used to pay roughly half of L.A. area tenants, on average, the difference has narrowed to 40%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, that’s just a function of arithmetic. In both the Bakersfield and the Los Angeles metro areas, the typical rent has increased by a little more than $500 since the beginning of the pandemic. Because Kern County rents were much lower, $500 represents a larger percentage hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the average Bakersfield area resident, that $500 rent hike pinches a lot harder: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescountycalifornia,kerncountycalifornia/PST045222\">average income in Kern County is roughly $25,000\u003c/a>, according to the most recent Census data. In L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hovik Manucharyan got on a plane and flew to a country at war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was fall 2020 and he felt drawn back to his home country of Armenia to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not alone. Many Armenians who’ve grown up outside the country — often in California — are moving back to their homeland in a kind of reverse migration. They’re seeking a closer connection to their culture, and community, and are using skills they gained in the U.S. to make a difference in a country that many know more from stories than from experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This reverse migration is making an impact. Californian transplants have started businesses and nonprofits. Some work in Armenia’s government. Others have helped expand Armenia’s tech sector or work to develop infrastructure in this small country that is still recovering from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nagorno-karabkah-drones-azerbaijan-aremenia/2020/11/11/441bcbd2-193d-11eb-8bda-814ca56e138b_story.html\">44-day war\u003c/a> with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18270325\">Nagorno-Karabakh\u003c/a>, which is populated by ethnic Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armenian immigrants in the United States, like Manucharyan, rallied to send aid to Armenia during the war when entire towns fell to Azerbaijan and thousands of Armenians were \u003ca href=\"https://www.unhcr.org/am/en/persons-in-refugee-like-situation\">displaced\u003c/a>. The conflict with Azerbaijan was one of many reasons that Manucharyan and his wife, Suzanna, decided to move their family to Armenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just sort of feels less stressful being here [in Armenia] than far away and hearing about your homeland and not being able to contribute,” Manucharyan said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mikael Matossian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘I just felt like I wasn’t doing enough in LA knowing that people my age, or younger, were being displaced or killed by the war here.’[/pullquote]Both Manucharyan and Suzanna moved to Los Angeles from Armenia when they were younger and spent most of their adult years in California. But they still feel strongly connected to their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Armenians, the 2020 war provided the impetus to leave California behind. The Manucharyans are part of a growing trend of Californians moving to Armenia full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt like I wasn’t doing enough in L.A. knowing that people my age, or younger, were being displaced or killed by the war here,” said Mikael Matossian, 28, who relocated to Yerevan last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little Armenia\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are actually more Armenians \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/development-through-diversity-engaging-armenia%E2%80%99s-new-and-old-diaspora\">living outside\u003c/a> the country than there are inside Armenia. Starting in 1915, hundreds of thousands of people fled the Armenian genocide, \u003ca href=\"https://gsp.yale.edu/case-studies/armenian-genocide\">committed\u003c/a> by the Ottoman Empire — which was succeeded by modern-day Turkey — and wound up all over the world. Another large wave of immigration from Armenia started in the ’90s after the Soviet Union collapsed and Armenia became an independent country.[aside label='More on Immigration' tag='immigration']Los Angeles County has the largest population of Armenians in the world outside Armenia, with the city of Glendale — sometimes called Little Armenia — considered the epicenter of Armenian language and culture in California. Armenian is widely spoken in Los Angeles, with Armenian restaurants and schools scattered around the city. For many, the Armenian diaspora in California provides a grounding community. But for some, it can sometimes feel suffocating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to get out [of the community] because I really needed space to be myself,” said Kyle Khandikian, who grew up in L.A. and went to an Armenian school in Encino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khandikian, who identifies as gay, said that when he was growing up, LGBTQ issues were a taboo subject in L.A.’s Armenian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a kid, I didn’t feel like I could be out and I wasn’t out,” Khandikian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short facial hair and glasses is photographed outdoors near a stream flowing through snowy terrain.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Khandikian hiking in Yeghegis, Armenia. Growing up, Khandikian wanted space from the Armenian community in L.A. that he grew up in, but as an adult he decided to move to Yerevan to immerse himself in his family’s culture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kyle Khandikian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he started college at UCLA, Khandikian tried stepping away from the Armenian community. But being Armenian continued to be an important part of his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that if you asked one of my friends from UCLA, ‘Who is Kyle?’ One of the first things they will say is, ‘Kyle is Armenian,’” Khandikian said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kyle Khandikian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘Maybe one of the reasons why I wanted to come here is to let go of some of the baggage that I was given just by way of being born into this place and this people.’[/pullquote]Once Khandikian got some distance from the Armenian community during college and became comfortable with his sexuality, he felt like his different identities — Armenian and queer — could coexist. That made him want to wholeheartedly embrace his Armenian side in a way he felt like he couldn’t before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he moved to Yerevan to immerse himself in Armenian culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe one of the reasons why I wanted to come here is to let go of some of the baggage that I was given just by way of being born into this place and this people,” Khandikian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A reverse brain drain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Californians got the bug to move here after volunteering in Armenia during college.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nanor Balabanian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘We had a common purpose and passion for our people, and I think I realized the power of our unity.’[/pullquote]Nanor Balabanian, 33, visited the country one summer with students from UC Santa Barbara. They set up a computer lab in a remote Armenian village using equipment they bought after fundraising at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a common purpose and passion for our people, and I think I realized the power of our unity,” Balabanian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balabanian turned the work she started during that first summer into a full-fledged nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiddenroadinitiative.org\">The Hidden Road Initiative\u003c/a> that helps expand access to education and provides leadership opportunities in rural Armenian villages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four people and one dog walk down a sidewalk in a city wearing winter clothing.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanor Balabanian, far left, walks through Yerevan, Armenia, with several young Armenian women she works with as part of her nonprofit, the Hidden Road Initiative, on February 9, 2023. Balabanian formerly worked as a teacher in California and now helps provide young Armenians with educational and leadership opportunities as part of her organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Balabanian’s work is an example of a reverse brain drain happening in Armenia. Instead of educated, skilled workers moving away from their home countries for opportunities in the U.S., Armenians from Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the state, are bringing their skills back to Armenia.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mikael Matossian, Yerevan, Armenia resident\"]‘I think there’s a really important role for diasporans to play here to support the ongoing development of the country.’[/pullquote]Mikael Matossian, a 28-year-old who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, used to work in the renewable energy industry in Los Angeles. Now, he helps Armenia make its energy system less dependent on Russian gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a really important role for diasporans to play here to support the ongoing development of the country,” Matossian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A sense of community\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even though Matossian had never lived in Armenia full-time before moving to Yerevan last year, he said the country immediately felt like home. Just hearing people talking in Armenian everywhere, the language he spoke with his parents and grandparents back in L.A., gave everything a sense of familiarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But moving to Armenia isn’t a seamless transition for many who grew up as part of the diaspora. Matossian — and many other Californians — use a dialect called Western Armenian commonly spoken by the descendants of those who fled parts of the country that were annexed to Turkey during the genocide a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard stands on a a sidewalk in a city.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikael Matossian, 28, stands in central Yerevan on February 12, 2023. Matossian moved to Yerevan last year and rents an apartment from an Armenian man who moved to L.A. ‘I feel like we traded places,’ Matossian said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Californians who move here have to master the local dialect, Eastern Armenian, spoken in the capital. Matossian said he felt self-conscious at times when he spoke after arriving in Yerevan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to fit in here, but I’ve since kind of abandoned that idea — I’m comfortable with my dialect,” Matossian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older Californians like Hovik Manucharyan — who moved his family to Yerevan after volunteering during the 2020 war — say they want their children to grow up with a closer connection to Armenian language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was a big change for Manucharyan’s three kids, but they felt welcomed when they arrived at their new Armenian school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Five people, two adults, two teens and one younger child sit at a table laid out with food.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Manucharyan family seated at their home in Yerevan, Armenia, on February 13, 2023. The family, who formerly lived in Glendale, moved to Yerevan, Armenia two years ago, to be closer to the country they love. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manurcharyan’s 17-year-old daughter, Vardine, said American students don’t really care when a new kid shows up in class. But in Armenia, students crowded around her on her first day at school introducing themselves and offering to show her around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools [in Armenia] are more like family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians living in Yerevan described a closer connection to their ancestral homeland now that they live in Armenia. Their families survived a genocide that tried to extinguish Armenian culture.[aside postID=news_11841878 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/1920_IMG_2213-copy-1020x574.jpg']But the survivors carried it with them when they fled as if their traditions and language were burning embers that they later rekindled, in places like Glendale, into big roaring bonfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving nearly halfway around the world makes Armenia more palpable, something you can touch without getting burnt, and carry with you when you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Los Angeles County has the largest population of Armenians in the world outside Armenia, with the city of Glendale — sometimes called Little Armenia — considered the epicenter of Armenian language and culture in California. Armenian is widely spoken in Los Angeles, with Armenian restaurants and schools scattered around the city. For many, the Armenian diaspora in California provides a grounding community. But for some, it can sometimes feel suffocating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to get out [of the community] because I really needed space to be myself,” said Kyle Khandikian, who grew up in L.A. and went to an Armenian school in Encino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khandikian, who identifies as gay, said that when he was growing up, LGBTQ issues were a taboo subject in L.A.’s Armenian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a kid, I didn’t feel like I could be out and I wasn’t out,” Khandikian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short facial hair and glasses is photographed outdoors near a stream flowing through snowy terrain.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Khandikian hiking in Yeghegis, Armenia. Growing up, Khandikian wanted space from the Armenian community in L.A. that he grew up in, but as an adult he decided to move to Yerevan to immerse himself in his family’s culture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kyle Khandikian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he started college at UCLA, Khandikian tried stepping away from the Armenian community. But being Armenian continued to be an important part of his identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that if you asked one of my friends from UCLA, ‘Who is Kyle?’ One of the first things they will say is, ‘Kyle is Armenian,’” Khandikian said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Once Khandikian got some distance from the Armenian community during college and became comfortable with his sexuality, he felt like his different identities — Armenian and queer — could coexist. That made him want to wholeheartedly embrace his Armenian side in a way he felt like he couldn’t before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he moved to Yerevan to immerse himself in Armenian culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe one of the reasons why I wanted to come here is to let go of some of the baggage that I was given just by way of being born into this place and this people,” Khandikian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A reverse brain drain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Californians got the bug to move here after volunteering in Armenia during college.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nanor Balabanian, 33, visited the country one summer with students from UC Santa Barbara. They set up a computer lab in a remote Armenian village using equipment they bought after fundraising at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a common purpose and passion for our people, and I think I realized the power of our unity,” Balabanian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balabanian turned the work she started during that first summer into a full-fledged nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiddenroadinitiative.org\">The Hidden Road Initiative\u003c/a> that helps expand access to education and provides leadership opportunities in rural Armenian villages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four people and one dog walk down a sidewalk in a city wearing winter clothing.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanor Balabanian, far left, walks through Yerevan, Armenia, with several young Armenian women she works with as part of her nonprofit, the Hidden Road Initiative, on February 9, 2023. Balabanian formerly worked as a teacher in California and now helps provide young Armenians with educational and leadership opportunities as part of her organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Balabanian’s work is an example of a reverse brain drain happening in Armenia. Instead of educated, skilled workers moving away from their home countries for opportunities in the U.S., Armenians from Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the state, are bringing their skills back to Armenia.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mikael Matossian, a 28-year-old who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, used to work in the renewable energy industry in Los Angeles. Now, he helps Armenia make its energy system less dependent on Russian gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a really important role for diasporans to play here to support the ongoing development of the country,” Matossian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A sense of community\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even though Matossian had never lived in Armenia full-time before moving to Yerevan last year, he said the country immediately felt like home. Just hearing people talking in Armenian everywhere, the language he spoke with his parents and grandparents back in L.A., gave everything a sense of familiarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But moving to Armenia isn’t a seamless transition for many who grew up as part of the diaspora. Matossian — and many other Californians — use a dialect called Western Armenian commonly spoken by the descendants of those who fled parts of the country that were annexed to Turkey during the genocide a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard stands on a a sidewalk in a city.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mikael Matossian, 28, stands in central Yerevan on February 12, 2023. Matossian moved to Yerevan last year and rents an apartment from an Armenian man who moved to L.A. ‘I feel like we traded places,’ Matossian said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Californians who move here have to master the local dialect, Eastern Armenian, spoken in the capital. Matossian said he felt self-conscious at times when he spoke after arriving in Yerevan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to fit in here, but I’ve since kind of abandoned that idea — I’m comfortable with my dialect,” Matossian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older Californians like Hovik Manucharyan — who moved his family to Yerevan after volunteering during the 2020 war — say they want their children to grow up with a closer connection to Armenian language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was a big change for Manucharyan’s three kids, but they felt welcomed when they arrived at their new Armenian school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Five people, two adults, two teens and one younger child sit at a table laid out with food.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062623-CALIFORNIA-ARMENIA-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Manucharyan family seated at their home in Yerevan, Armenia, on February 13, 2023. The family, who formerly lived in Glendale, moved to Yerevan, Armenia two years ago, to be closer to the country they love. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Levi Bridges)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Manurcharyan’s 17-year-old daughter, Vardine, said American students don’t really care when a new kid shows up in class. But in Armenia, students crowded around her on her first day at school introducing themselves and offering to show her around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools [in Armenia] are more like family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians living in Yerevan described a closer connection to their ancestral homeland now that they live in Armenia. Their families survived a genocide that tried to extinguish Armenian culture.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard stands at the top of a narrow park that slopes downward toward a lifeguard training center and panoramic views of the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking over the horizon at a beautiful, beautiful ocean,” Shepard says. “It’s blue, serene — it’s quiet. It’s just a gorgeous, gorgeous view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891875 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Sepia-tone portrait of an elaborately dressed couple, one in a three-piece suit and the other in a white dress with a bustle, holding a fan.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1020x1344.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1165x1536.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1554x2048.jpg 1554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce. \u003ccite>(California African American Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Shepard, this oceanfront park known as Bruce’s Beach — located in Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles — holds a painful history. “This is the land that our family used to own,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard’s ancestors, an African American couple named Charles and Willa Bruce, owned this land a century ago. The couple built a beachfront resort called Bruce’s Beach Lodge in 1912 and welcomed Black beachgoers with a restaurant, a dance hall and changing tents with bathing suits for rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bruces were run out of Manhattan Beach and forced to shut down their successful resort. Their property was seized by the city, and they lost their fortune. For years, the land was owned by the county of Los Angeles — until last month, when California passed a law that allowed the property to be transferred back to the couple’s descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic Bruce’s Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors also were victims of land theft in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Black resort faced harassment from white neighbors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shepard, a cousin of the direct descendant of Charles and Willa Bruce, says Bruce’s Beach offered a refuge for Black patrons during the Jim Crowe era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There weren’t many areas where Black people could get into the water along the entire coast of California at that time,” Shepard, 70, tells NPR. He’s a clan chief of the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Bruce’s Beach] was a place where people could have social functions,” he says. “You had Black entertainers, actors and actresses, jazz artists, Black politicians as well as business owners and socialites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2672px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of a dune with only a couple buildings on it and many telephone poles. On the right, cyclists along an asphalt beachfront beyond rows of buildings.\" width=\"2672\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png 2672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-800x265.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1536x508.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-2048x678.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1920x635.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2672px) 100vw, 2672px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce’s Beach in 1915 and in 2021. \u003ccite>(Manhattan Beach Historical Society; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, some white residents of Manhattan Beach feared an “invasion” by the African American community, according to local historian Robert L. Brigham’s 1956 Fresno State master’s thesis “Land Ownership and Occupancy by Negroes in Manhattan Beach, California.” White residents set up barricades to keep Black beachgoers from getting to the ocean, and the Ku Klux Klan, active along the California coast, reportedly planned attacks against the Bruces’ resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They slashed tires, they burned mattresses under the porch of the resort, they tried to blow up a gas meter of one of the residents here,” Shepard says. “They had 24/7 phone campaigns and made threats against Willa and her family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The city of Manhattan Beach seized the resort\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In November 1923, a white realtor named George H. Lindsey approached Manhattan Beach’s Board of Trustees with an option to condemn Bruce’s Beach through the Park and Playground Act of 1909, \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanbeach.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/46327/637539367135870000\">according to an April 13, 2021, report by the Bruce’s Beach Task Force\u003c/a>, a resident-led task force appointed by the Manhattan Beach City Council last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1924, Manhattan Beach city officials invoked eminent domain, claiming the city would build a public park over 30 lots, including the Bruces’ land and four other lots owned by African American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891849 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man dribbles a basketball on a sidewalk between two green lawns with his son, who looks about 5.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A park visitor, Dorian Hill, plays basketball with his son at Bruce’s Beach. He says he felt drawn to the park before he knew the history. “And then I read the plaque. And then last summer happened,” Hill adds. “I was drawn here for a reason.” \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach resort was shuttered and demolished, and the property sat vacant for decades. Willa and Charles Bruce requested $120,000 for both damages and the value of their property, but the city granted them $14,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the two parcels of land are worth an estimated $75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB796\"> SB 796\u003c/a>, authorizing the county to transfer the land back to the Bruce family after nearly 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2021/10/05/la-county-prepares-for-bruces-beach-land-transfer/\">Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously\u003c/a> to begin the process of transferring the land. That process also will include confirming the Bruces’ rightful heirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re making history,” Newsom said at the ceremony held on Bruce’s Beach. “I’m proud to be here, not just for the descendants of the Bruce family, but for all of those families torn asunder because of racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891841 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe\" alt=\"Four African American people dressed finely and smiling in the sun on a beachside boardwalk.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-800x573.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1020x730.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-160x115.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1536x1100.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-2048x1466.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1920x1374.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two couples standing on a walkway at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Black landowners have faced eminent domain abuse for generations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach stands as just one example of land theft that’s taken place across the United States through violence, intimidation and legal maneuvers. For generations, Black landowners like Willa and Charles Bruce have been victimized by eminent domain abuse and unjust property laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why the Bruce’s case has been generating so much attention is because it represents the first instance in the history of the United States where an African American family or community that had their property taken unjustly, ended up having it returned,” says Thomas W. Mitchell, a property law scholar at Texas A&M University. He’s worked to reform discriminatory policies that have stripped African American people of their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell is part of a research team called the Land Loss and Reparations Research Project, which is trying to put an economic value on agricultural land unjustly taken from Black farmers over the last hundred years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our research team has come up with a preliminary estimate of $300 billion,” Mitchell says, noting that it only accounts for the farmland itself. “We’re also going further and saying that as a result of losing this land, we lost the ability to benefit from the land ownership in terms of families getting loans to send their children to college, which then has a negative impact on economic mobility — and that’s just Black farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell estimates the total loss of generational wealth for Black Americans across the U.S. falls into the trillions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2674px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891850 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a sepia-toned photo of a couple, dressed in conservative beachwear, smiling, the man's hand on the woman's shoulder. On the right, a woman in a neon pink workout outfit poses as someone takes a photo with a mobile phone.\" width=\"2674\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png 2674w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1020x335.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1536x504.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-2048x672.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1920x630.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2674px) 100vw, 2674px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise and Byron Kenner at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. Fitness coach Jasmine Dobbs poses for a photo on the walkway of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Credit: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But families such as the Bruces whose property was taken generations ago don’t have legal recourse to get their land back, Mitchell says. Statute-of-limitation restrictions prevent families from successfully filing lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell points to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white mobs tried to destroy what was known as Black Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there was a state commission. Yes, it did do a detailed report. Yes, that detailed report documented tremendous and horrible abuses and killings and burning of businesses and taking of property,” he says. “But it didn’t lead to one penny — it didn’t lead to a single property being returned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891853 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A couple cuddles on a fuzzy blanket on the grass.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles locals Tiffany Harris and Avery Pike picnic at Bruce’s Beach. “It’s soothing to come to,” said Harris. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach had a different outcome because the government actually stepped in to make amends for a historical wrong. The California Legislature passed a law allowing for the land to be given back to the Bruce family, making it a unique case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is the Bruce’s Beach case a recognition that the time has come for real racial justice in this country?” Mitchell asks. “Can this serve as a template for providing effective redress to other African American families who have had their property taken unjustly? We’ll see.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Activists are trying to help other Black families reclaim their land\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the signing ceremony in Manhattan Beach, Newsom recognized activist Kavon Ward as the driving force behind the Bruce’s Beach movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A monument saying "Bruce's" with a plaque engraved on it, with a laminated photograph propped on the plaque.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A printed-out wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce was placed on top of the plaque. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I informed the [Bruce] family that I would do anything in my power to help them,” Ward, 39, tells NPR. “Not only to get restitution for their loss of civil rights, their loss of business enterprise, but for me, I felt like justice was getting their land back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about the same time on the opposite coast, in Philadelphia, 43-year-old Ashanti Martin was on a similar mission. The two were introduced through a mutual friend, and together, Ward and Martin co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://whereismyland.org/\">Where Is My Land\u003c/a>, dedicated to helping Black Americans reclaim stolen land and secure restitution. Both say they were compelled to take action after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/systemic-racism/\">George Floyd’s ancestor Hillery Thomas Stewart\u003c/a> who, back in the late 1800s, had owned 500 acres of land in North Carolina, and that land was stolen by white farmers,” Martin says. “I think there’s no question, had George Floyd’s ancestors kept that land in their family, his life outcomes would have transformed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2670px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891858 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of three people sitting in a sand dune and leaning together. On the right, a view of the ocean, sun on the water and a flat beach with a handful of people on it.\" width=\"2670\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM.png 2670w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-800x264.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1536x507.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-2048x677.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1920x634.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2670px) 100vw, 2670px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three people at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, 1920s. A view of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through their organization, Martin and Ward are fielding dozens more requests from African American families across the U.S., hoping to reclaim their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that we can handle all of this within my lifetime,” Ward says. “It took a long time for the land to be stolen — it didn’t happen overnight. And so getting it back is going to take even longer because there’s so many obstacles and roadblocks in the way. And so the only thing we can do is to make sure we’re dealing with this, one family at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Bruce family, they say they won’t move to Manhattan Beach or build on the land that’s now being returned to them. Instead, they’ll rent the lifeguard training center back to the County of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard, their descendent, says reclaiming Bruce’s Beach was just the first step. Now, he says his family will continue their fight for restitution for the loss of revenue over the past 97 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891859 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a polo shirt and a ball cap sits on a bench alongside a beach and rests both hands on the head of a cane.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard at Bruce’s Beach. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard stands at the top of a narrow park that slopes downward toward a lifeguard training center and panoramic views of the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking over the horizon at a beautiful, beautiful ocean,” Shepard says. “It’s blue, serene — it’s quiet. It’s just a gorgeous, gorgeous view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891875 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Sepia-tone portrait of an elaborately dressed couple, one in a three-piece suit and the other in a white dress with a bustle, holding a fan.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1020x1344.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1165x1536.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1554x2048.jpg 1554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce. \u003ccite>(California African American Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Shepard, this oceanfront park known as Bruce’s Beach — located in Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles — holds a painful history. “This is the land that our family used to own,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard’s ancestors, an African American couple named Charles and Willa Bruce, owned this land a century ago. The couple built a beachfront resort called Bruce’s Beach Lodge in 1912 and welcomed Black beachgoers with a restaurant, a dance hall and changing tents with bathing suits for rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bruces were run out of Manhattan Beach and forced to shut down their successful resort. Their property was seized by the city, and they lost their fortune. For years, the land was owned by the county of Los Angeles — until last month, when California passed a law that allowed the property to be transferred back to the couple’s descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic Bruce’s Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors also were victims of land theft in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Black resort faced harassment from white neighbors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shepard, a cousin of the direct descendant of Charles and Willa Bruce, says Bruce’s Beach offered a refuge for Black patrons during the Jim Crowe era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There weren’t many areas where Black people could get into the water along the entire coast of California at that time,” Shepard, 70, tells NPR. He’s a clan chief of the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Bruce’s Beach] was a place where people could have social functions,” he says. “You had Black entertainers, actors and actresses, jazz artists, Black politicians as well as business owners and socialites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2672px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of a dune with only a couple buildings on it and many telephone poles. On the right, cyclists along an asphalt beachfront beyond rows of buildings.\" width=\"2672\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png 2672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-800x265.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1536x508.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-2048x678.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1920x635.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2672px) 100vw, 2672px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce’s Beach in 1915 and in 2021. \u003ccite>(Manhattan Beach Historical Society; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, some white residents of Manhattan Beach feared an “invasion” by the African American community, according to local historian Robert L. Brigham’s 1956 Fresno State master’s thesis “Land Ownership and Occupancy by Negroes in Manhattan Beach, California.” White residents set up barricades to keep Black beachgoers from getting to the ocean, and the Ku Klux Klan, active along the California coast, reportedly planned attacks against the Bruces’ resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They slashed tires, they burned mattresses under the porch of the resort, they tried to blow up a gas meter of one of the residents here,” Shepard says. “They had 24/7 phone campaigns and made threats against Willa and her family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The city of Manhattan Beach seized the resort\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In November 1923, a white realtor named George H. Lindsey approached Manhattan Beach’s Board of Trustees with an option to condemn Bruce’s Beach through the Park and Playground Act of 1909, \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanbeach.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/46327/637539367135870000\">according to an April 13, 2021, report by the Bruce’s Beach Task Force\u003c/a>, a resident-led task force appointed by the Manhattan Beach City Council last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1924, Manhattan Beach city officials invoked eminent domain, claiming the city would build a public park over 30 lots, including the Bruces’ land and four other lots owned by African American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891849 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man dribbles a basketball on a sidewalk between two green lawns with his son, who looks about 5.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A park visitor, Dorian Hill, plays basketball with his son at Bruce’s Beach. He says he felt drawn to the park before he knew the history. “And then I read the plaque. And then last summer happened,” Hill adds. “I was drawn here for a reason.” \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach resort was shuttered and demolished, and the property sat vacant for decades. Willa and Charles Bruce requested $120,000 for both damages and the value of their property, but the city granted them $14,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the two parcels of land are worth an estimated $75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB796\"> SB 796\u003c/a>, authorizing the county to transfer the land back to the Bruce family after nearly 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2021/10/05/la-county-prepares-for-bruces-beach-land-transfer/\">Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously\u003c/a> to begin the process of transferring the land. That process also will include confirming the Bruces’ rightful heirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re making history,” Newsom said at the ceremony held on Bruce’s Beach. “I’m proud to be here, not just for the descendants of the Bruce family, but for all of those families torn asunder because of racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891841 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe\" alt=\"Four African American people dressed finely and smiling in the sun on a beachside boardwalk.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-800x573.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1020x730.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-160x115.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1536x1100.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-2048x1466.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1920x1374.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two couples standing on a walkway at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Black landowners have faced eminent domain abuse for generations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach stands as just one example of land theft that’s taken place across the United States through violence, intimidation and legal maneuvers. For generations, Black landowners like Willa and Charles Bruce have been victimized by eminent domain abuse and unjust property laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why the Bruce’s case has been generating so much attention is because it represents the first instance in the history of the United States where an African American family or community that had their property taken unjustly, ended up having it returned,” says Thomas W. Mitchell, a property law scholar at Texas A&M University. He’s worked to reform discriminatory policies that have stripped African American people of their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell is part of a research team called the Land Loss and Reparations Research Project, which is trying to put an economic value on agricultural land unjustly taken from Black farmers over the last hundred years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our research team has come up with a preliminary estimate of $300 billion,” Mitchell says, noting that it only accounts for the farmland itself. “We’re also going further and saying that as a result of losing this land, we lost the ability to benefit from the land ownership in terms of families getting loans to send their children to college, which then has a negative impact on economic mobility — and that’s just Black farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell estimates the total loss of generational wealth for Black Americans across the U.S. falls into the trillions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2674px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891850 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a sepia-toned photo of a couple, dressed in conservative beachwear, smiling, the man's hand on the woman's shoulder. On the right, a woman in a neon pink workout outfit poses as someone takes a photo with a mobile phone.\" width=\"2674\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png 2674w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1020x335.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1536x504.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-2048x672.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1920x630.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2674px) 100vw, 2674px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise and Byron Kenner at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. Fitness coach Jasmine Dobbs poses for a photo on the walkway of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Credit: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But families such as the Bruces whose property was taken generations ago don’t have legal recourse to get their land back, Mitchell says. Statute-of-limitation restrictions prevent families from successfully filing lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell points to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white mobs tried to destroy what was known as Black Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there was a state commission. Yes, it did do a detailed report. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Activists are trying to help other Black families reclaim their land\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the signing ceremony in Manhattan Beach, Newsom recognized activist Kavon Ward as the driving force behind the Bruce’s Beach movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A monument saying "Bruce's" with a plaque engraved on it, with a laminated photograph propped on the plaque.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A printed-out wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce was placed on top of the plaque. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I informed the [Bruce] family that I would do anything in my power to help them,” Ward, 39, tells NPR. “Not only to get restitution for their loss of civil rights, their loss of business enterprise, but for me, I felt like justice was getting their land back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about the same time on the opposite coast, in Philadelphia, 43-year-old Ashanti Martin was on a similar mission. The two were introduced through a mutual friend, and together, Ward and Martin co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://whereismyland.org/\">Where Is My Land\u003c/a>, dedicated to helping Black Americans reclaim stolen land and secure restitution. Both say they were compelled to take action after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/systemic-racism/\">George Floyd’s ancestor Hillery Thomas Stewart\u003c/a> who, back in the late 1800s, had owned 500 acres of land in North Carolina, and that land was stolen by white farmers,” Martin says. “I think there’s no question, had George Floyd’s ancestors kept that land in their family, his life outcomes would have transformed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2670px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891858 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of three people sitting in a sand dune and leaning together. 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A view of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through their organization, Martin and Ward are fielding dozens more requests from African American families across the U.S., hoping to reclaim their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that we can handle all of this within my lifetime,” Ward says. “It took a long time for the land to be stolen — it didn’t happen overnight. And so getting it back is going to take even longer because there’s so many obstacles and roadblocks in the way. And so the only thing we can do is to make sure we’re dealing with this, one family at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Bruce family, they say they won’t move to Manhattan Beach or build on the land that’s now being returned to them. Instead, they’ll rent the lifeguard training center back to the County of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard, their descendent, says reclaiming Bruce’s Beach was just the first step. 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