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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It is deeply troubling that a U.S. citizen, union leader, and upstanding member of the Los Angeles community continues to be detained by the federal government for exercising his rights to observe immigration enforcement,” the senators wrote in the letter, demanding the department provide additional details about the incident by Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abel Fuaau, a district representative for the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 39, demanded elected officials provide the support that labor and community leaders need to “fight back against these brown-shirted goons goose-stepping across California, wreaking havoc on our cities, on our families, on our neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make no mistake, history is being written right now,” he said at Monday’s rally. “And as the old Union hymn goes, which side are you on? Who are you with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint alleges that Huerta joined other protesters before noon on Friday at the scene of the raid, after a federal judge authorized search warrants for four businesses “suspected of unlawfully employing illegal aliens and falsifying employment records related to the status of its employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal officer, whose name is redacted in the affidavit, accused Huerta of yelling at and taunting officers and then sitting cross-legged in front of the vehicle gate, “effectively preventing law enforcement vehicles from entering or exiting the premises through the gate to execute the search warrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huerta’s arrest, and subsequent backlash, follows a weekend of tumultuous protests against raids in L.A. and surrounding areas, in which activists clashed with local law enforcement officials. In response to the unrest, President Trump deployed as many as \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/06/statement-from-the-white-house-d320/\">2,000 National Guardsmen\u003c/a> into the city on Saturday without Newsom’s consent, arguing that doing so was necessary to protect ICE and other federal immigration agents from the “violent mobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deployment, which appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s National Guard was activated without a request from its governor, was roundly condemned by Newsom and scores of other state and local leaders, accusing the president of inflaming tensions and sowing chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">announced the state planned\u003c/a> to sue the administration over its deployment of National Guard troops, saying that the president had unlawfully “trampled” the state’s sovereignty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t take lightly to the president abusing his authority and unlawfully mobilizing California National Guard troops,” said Bonta, who planned to seek a court order requesting a restraining order to halt the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pentagon on Monday also mobilized more than \u003ca href=\"https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/09/politics/marines-mobilized-los-angeles-protests\">700 Marines\u003c/a> in California to respond to the protests, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/g-s1-71640/trump-mobilizes-marines-for-duty-in-los-angeles\">NPR confirmed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Rudy Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council, warned demonstrators on Monday that the administration’s actions pose a direct threat to American society and democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is fundamentally under attack by a fascist state, and there will be a time when David Huerta is not the only labor leader,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:01 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sued the Trump administration on Monday over its deployment of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043221/protesters-and-immigration-authorities-face-off-for-a-2nd-day-in-la-area-after-arrests\">thousands of National Guard troops\u003c/a> in Los Angeles over the weekend, after widespread demonstrations against increased immigration enforcement erupted across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/ECF%201%20-%20Complaint%20NG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> lawsuit\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta argue that Trump’s activation of the guard violated the limits on federal power under the 10th Amendment because Newsom did not ask for the troops. Under ordinary circumstances, National Guard units are under the command of state governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that is within Gov. Newsom’s sovereignty,” Bonta said. “And he did not authorize the use of the National Guard here, did not call for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta added that local law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, had enough resources to manage the crowds and respond to sporadic vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this order, Trump and [Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth ignored law enforcement’s expertise and guidance,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit comes amid rising tensions between the Trump administration and California leaders. As Newsom and Bonta accused Trump of overstepping federal law to send in the guard, the president voiced support for arresting Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2219258354-scaled-e1749490657607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1304\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Highway Patrol (CHP) cars, some damaged, are lined up along the 101 freeway after officers cleared protesters from the area on June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of city leaders following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids. More protests are scheduled for Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Saturday that “anybody” who impedes the work of federal law enforcement agents could face arrest, Newsom upped the ante in a Sunday interview with MSNBC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Come after me, arrest me, let’s just get it over with, tough guy,” Newsom said. “I don’t give a damn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump told reporters outside the White House on Monday that Newsom was doing a “terrible job” and that he’d support Homan pursuing an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would do it, if I were Tom, I think it’s great,” Trump said. “Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing.”[aside postID=news_12043255 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg']Meanwhile, the administration is expected to increase the military presence in Los Angeles on Tuesday by deploying a battalion of 700 active-duty Marines based out of Twentynine Palms to serve in a “support role.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s memorandum sending the National Guard into Los Angeles invoked a rarely used provision of the U.S. code that allows a president to deploy guard troops to a state if “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time a president deployed a state’s national force without the request of its governor was in 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the move was necessary after “violent mobs attack[ed]” Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers conducting raids, which have ramped up in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1931472857554645294\">announced Saturday\u003c/a> that it had arrested 118 immigrants in Los Angeles over the previous week. In San Francisco, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">least 15 people\u003c/a>, including a 3-year-old, were arrested following appearances at ICE check-ins last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043372\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester during the early hours of an anti-ICE demonstration in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahilan Arulanantham, faculty co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, said Trump’s justification of military deployment could set a dangerous precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If every time there’s a few people who throw rocks or lie down in front of ICE cars or something, that that’s a form of rebellion — then that essentially means that we can live in something akin to a military dictatorship,” Arulanantham said on KQED’s Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to California Legal Affairs Secretary David Sapp, “there is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles, and to do so in this unlawful manner and for such a lengthy period is a serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation.”[aside postID=news_12043333 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-03-KQED.jpg']Since troops were deployed to the streets of Los Angeles, protests have erupted in other cities across the country, including in San Francisco. On Sunday night, approximately 155\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043255/sf-protesters-denounce-ice-raids-and-trumps-national-guard-deployment-to-la\"> people, including six children, were arrested\u003c/a> and issued citations after a group of protesters outside the city’s ICE field office turned violent and vandalized buses and windows, according to the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More demonstrations are expected in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Newsom sparred with Trump on social media, saying that he was manufacturing a crisis and inflaming conditions by sending in the guard troops. Los Angeles Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/08/nx-s1-5427196/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-on-protests\">Karen Bass said Sunday on NPR\u003c/a> that bringing the National Guard to the city felt “provocative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was happening in terms of the protest and all was well under control by the police department,” she said. “Our law enforcement officers are well-equipped here to handle the level of protest that you saw, and that’s why Governor Newsom did not make the request for federal support, and neither did I, in terms of we thought more support was needed that our local law enforcement couldn’t handle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s showdown with Trump comes months after the governor deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles in the wake of devastating wildfires and sought a partnership with the new administration on rebuilding and recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester walks down the police line during an anti-ICE protest in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since then, Newsom has reprised his earlier role as a top Trump critic — on tariffs, Medicaid cuts and environmental policy. With his response to the idea of being arrested, Newsom showed a bravado that could boost his image among California Democrats, spoiling for a fight with Trump, said Los Angeles Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you saw someone challenging the masculinity of this White House,” Trujillo said. “I think you saw, for lack of a better word, some machismo coming from a Democrat, and I wouldn’t be shocked if you see Newsom’s polling improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trujillo said partisan confrontation with the White House could also boost local L.A. officials, particularly Bass, who is up for re-election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his order Saturday night, Trump justified the deployment by saying the protests had caused security threats at federal property, including detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trujillo, an L.A. native, said Angelenos are unlikely to believe the demonstrations have reached a level of disorder that merits a heavy federal response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think on the Lakers-winning-the-championship scale, this is about a three, three and a half,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 pm Sunday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Gavin Newsom has sent a letter to the Trump administration, calling in a post on X for “their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles [C]ounty be rescinded” and for the state National Guard to be returned to his command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/gavinnewsom/status/1931840646773715068?s=46\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” Newsom wrote. “This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the White House called the governor’s leadership “feckless,” accusing him of refusing to stop violent attacks on law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bald-faced lie for Newsom to claim there was no problem in Los Angeles before President Trump got involved,” said White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson. “Everyone saw the chaos, violence, and lawlessness – unless, of course, Gavin Newsom doesn’t think any of that is a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles Sunday, tear gas was fired at protesters when some demonstrators moved close to National Guard troops and shouted insults at them, hours after President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/insurrection-act-trump-troops-newsom-military-national-guard-a842f79e1c0e244039be274a6f266a7a\">extraordinary decision to deploy them. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confrontation broke out as hundreds of people protested in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where several of the newly-arrived National Guard troops stood shoulder to shoulder behind plastic riot shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border Patrol personnel deploy tear gas during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration authorities a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday, June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video showed uniformed officers shooting off the smoke-filled canisters as they advanced into the street, forcing protesters to retreat. It was not immediately clear what prompted the use of chemical irritants or which law enforcement agency fired them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, loud popping sounds erupted again, as some protesters chanted “go home” and “shame.” One person was taken to the ground by uniformed officers. Another appeared to be bleeding from their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move came over the objections of Newsom, who accused Trump of a “complete overreaction.” It marked the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/department-of-defense-security-for-the-protection-of-department-of-homeland-security-functions/\">directive\u003c/a> Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ”a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approximately 300 National Guard members were deployed Sunday to three separate locations in the greater Los Angeles area, according to military officials. Several protests and marches were scheduled to kick off Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Bay Area leaders condemned President Trump’s decision to deploy the troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s unwarranted and unwise deployment of California’s National Guard over the objections of California officials is likely intended to inflame the situation,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren in a written statement. “Our citizen soldiers, members of California’s National Guard, should not be abused in this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Rep. Mike Thompson called Trump’s move “outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the president that wouldn’t call in the National Guard on January 6th when there was an insurrection at the Capitol, and then later pardoned everyone who was tried in court and found guilty,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mark DeSaulnier blamed Trump for sabotaging the bipartisan efforts to deal with the border and immigration problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[President Trump] created this crisis and now he’s trying to provoke a constitutional crisis,” said DeSaulnier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta said his team has been in touch with local law enforcement in Los Angeles and stands ready to assist if additional resources are needed. He called Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision “unnecessary and counterproductive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To follow [the deployment] with a threat to order additional active duty Marines to the city is an inflammatory escalation,” said Bonta in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigrant rights activists also spoke out against President Trump’s response to protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The enforcement tactics being used by the Trump administration to attempt and terrorize our communities are morally unacceptable,” said Renee Saucedo, an organizer with the Northern California Coalition for Just Immigration Reform. “Immigrant communities have always held peaceful protests … law enforcement, including local police and ICE agents, have unfortunately been the ones to instigate violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DKn5F4-Mnjd/?hl=en\">solidarity protest\u003c/a> in San Francisco is scheduled to take place outside an ICE facility Sunday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters kick the side of a Border Patrol vehicle during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration authorities a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday, June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom called Trump on Friday night and they spoke for about 40 minutes, according to the governor’s office. It was not clear if they spoke Saturday or Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some confusion surrounding the exact timing of the guard’s arrival. Shortly before midnight local time, Trump congratulated the National Guard on a “job well done.” But less than an hour later, Bass said troops had yet to arrive in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that the purpose of the deployment was to “provide security for operations and to make sure that there are peaceful protests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2026px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2026\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201.jpg 2026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2026px) 100vw, 2026px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police detain a man during a protest in the Paramount section of Los Angeles, Saturday, June 7, 2025, after federal immigration authorities conducted operations. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The troops included members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USNorthernCmd/status/1931728687772098645/photo/2\">social media post\u003c/a> from the Department of Defense that showed dozens of National Guard members with long guns and an armored vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a signal of the administration’s aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also threatened to deploy active-duty Marines “if violence continues” in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, a Democrat, described Trump’s decision to call in the National Guard as a “provocative show of force” that would only escalate tensions, adding that Hegseth’s threat to deploy Marines on American soil was “deranged behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont Sen. 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Another appeared to be bleeding from their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move came over the objections of Newsom, who accused Trump of a “complete overreaction.” It marked the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/department-of-defense-security-for-the-protection-of-department-of-homeland-security-functions/\">directive\u003c/a> Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ”a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approximately 300 National Guard members were deployed Sunday to three separate locations in the greater Los Angeles area, according to military officials. Several protests and marches were scheduled to kick off Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Bay Area leaders condemned President Trump’s decision to deploy the troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s unwarranted and unwise deployment of California’s National Guard over the objections of California officials is likely intended to inflame the situation,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren in a written statement. “Our citizen soldiers, members of California’s National Guard, should not be abused in this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Rep. Mike Thompson called Trump’s move “outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the president that wouldn’t call in the National Guard on January 6th when there was an insurrection at the Capitol, and then later pardoned everyone who was tried in court and found guilty,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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It was not clear if they spoke Saturday or Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some confusion surrounding the exact timing of the guard’s arrival. 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"content": "\u003cp>Parishioner Bob Schaper knew what he was looking for had to be there somewhere in Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\">Altadena \u003c/a>— although there wasn’t much that remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is what’s left,” Schaper said, as he pointed to a blackened entryway that, since the devastating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eaton-fire\">Eaton Fire\u003c/a>, now opened to a charred field of destruction. “The church burned down through the floors to the subsequent [kindergarten] school rooms below. Organ, pews, the beams, roof — everything is just gone, simply gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elementary school serving some 300 students, renovated just a few years ago, was also immolated, along with a two-story suite of parish offices and a day care center. But none of the destruction deterred Schaper from his mission. Without telling a soul, he zipped up a hazmat suit, slipped on a mask, laced up some heavy boots and got to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in there with full gear, a sledgehammer and saws, cutting away pipe and chicken wire and finally through a hole about as big as a dinner plate. I look [through it] and there’s the words: ‘To the Glory of God,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s just like, oh! There’s the bell!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s brass bell was a gift from the family of Dean Howe, a young parishioner who died from cancer at age 15. For nearly 60 years, it rang out at the start of Sunday services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burnt remains of Saint Mark’s Church, in Altadena, on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Matt Wright, another parishioner who helped lift the bell from the ashes, its discovery signaled hope for the church’s uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bell will make its return when Saint Mark’s makes its return to Altadena Drive,” Wright said. “The bell will be a centerpiece of the new church sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second Sunday after the fire, Pastor Carri Grindon was leading the Saint Mark’s congregation at its new temporary home at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles — a roughly 20-minute drive from the Altadena campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s still processing the loss while making sure that everyone in the church community, many if not most of whom either lost homes or were temporarily displaced, is OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just been in this mode of, do the next thing, just take care of the next person, just plan the next gathering,” she said, speaking on the porch of the Saint Barnabas parish house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parishioner shared a video of the church engulfed in flames, while the Eaton Fire continued its furious march across the expanse of this tight-knit foothill community. Altadena is known for its hardiness and a wild, feral spirit. But this was too much. Grindon refused to believe her eyes until she arrived on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was something about standing on the site,” she said. “A church is a particular kind of loss because it [represents] all of these big moments in people’s lives. It’s unimaginable to not be able to be there again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena lost more than a dozen places of worship in the Eaton Fire, including large campuses like Saint Mark’s and Altadena United Methodist, and storefront churches like Abounding Faith Ministries. Most have publicly expressed determination to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if rebuilding a home is challenging, rebuilding a faith community and its sanctuary is even harder, involving shared commitment, fundraising and a re-evaluation of priorities — all while maintaining a community that’s been scattered like embers blown by Santa Ana winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church of Altadena prepares to hold Easter services in their temporary home at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Charlie Cutler has seen it before, as president of ChurchWest, which provides property and other insurance to ministries across California, Nevada and Arizona, including two other churches destroyed in the Eaton Fire. One of those churches — the Altadena Community Church, another historic sanctuary and school — was directly across the street from Saint Mark’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We work with over 4,000 ministries in California, and we have at least one church that is a total loss every year,” he said. “And every single time the church says we want to rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Altadena churches that ChurchWest covered\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wanting to rebuild and actually doing it are very different things, he cautioned. Cutler said that before any blueprints are drawn up or any concrete is poured, each church community should ask itself some difficult questions. Is rebuilding really the best idea? Or even possible?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-113-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to a ChurchWest client that lost its sanctuary in the 2018 Camp Fire, which largely destroyed the Northern California town of Paradise. For that church, survival meant not rebuilding at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because there’s no people, because all the people have been displaced, and the members of the congregation had gone to Chico or moved out of the area completely, they saw a decline in attendance,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meanwhile, there was a church down the street with similar beliefs and (the churches) consolidated,” he continued. “I think they created a very healthy church — they are now one congregation that’s come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congregation of Saint Mark’s Episcopal is a vibrant mix of ages, income levels and ethnicities. That’s helped by having an elementary school and kindergarten, which attracts young families and new parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 4, some 300 Saint Mark’s Elementary school kids sang the R&B classic “Stand by Me” for hundreds of parents, school officials and elected leaders at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new, temporary teaching space at EF Academy private school in Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Grindon holds Easter services for the congregation of St. Marks Episcopal Church of Altadena in their temporary home at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new, “Saint Mark’s Village” offers over 2-dozen classrooms, administrative offices, and plenty of outdoor space on the Academy’s 16 acres — all at no cost to Saint Mark’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with such generosity, Pastor Grindon recognizes the immense challenges that lie ahead. Yes, the insurance money is in the bank. But even with that, she estimates a roughly $20 million shortfall and a rebuilding master plan that could span over two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have the perfect campus,” Grindon said. “It’s beloved, but now that it’s gone, what would we do differently? We know that it’ll cost a lot to rebuild the church and school, and those costs are only going to go up. But we want to get back there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grindon envisions a 20-year reconstruction and a roughly $20 million shortfall. She imagines fundraising over time, in phases. “There’s no way that we, just in a straight capital campaign within the community, are we going to get there,” she said, “unless some major angels show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_17-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaper, who located Saint Mark’s church bell, said that the arduous process of rebuilding should not consume the spirit of the people who still fill the pews every Sunday at its temporary location in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at church now, we’re doing church now,” Schaper said. “Saint Mark’s is going to continue to be a church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in his retirement years, Schaper doesn’t know if he’ll be around when the new Saint Mark’s rises again. But it’s not something he’s given much thought to, choosing instead to focus on the hard work of keeping his church family’s head up, day by day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must protect and keep our arms around the people themselves. We must maintain that as number one and then put a building around that,” he said. “We have to keep going because this is going to take longer than anyone thinks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-800x269.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1020x343.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1536x516.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1920x645.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children from the St. Marks Episcopal Church of Altadena congregation hunt for Easter eggs at their temporary home at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Schaper uncovered the church’s bronze bell, three other parishioners helped him dislodge it. Once free, they attached it to a pair of iron bars to carefully carry it from the ruins, “like Cleopatra” in her chair, parishioner Tom Horner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bell was carefully washed, the crew lifted it once more. Then, they rang it, for the first time since January 5, the Sunday before the Eaton Fire took almost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And unfortunately, this is not uncommon. Through my advocacy, speaking with youth in juvenile halls, I hear so many stories that are so similar to mine. And I think that’s what helps me continue to do this work because I found the strength, the self-love and the forgiveness for myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the importance of having a mentor:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My family dynamics are pretty rocky. Having a support system from outsiders and my church family has helped propel me forward. One person is Jessica Midkiff [a trafficking survivor and advocate].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12030626 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Alicia-Portnoy_JB_00003-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I go to a group home. Now she’s coming to speak to that group home. And I just told her, ‘You know, your story reminds me so much of myself. I wanna be like you when I get older.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she looked at me and she said, ‘No, Brittianna, you’re going to be better than me.’ And ever since then, she and I have been like big sister, little sister. She’s been the main person that gave me the role model as to what an advocate and what someone who uses their pain to help others looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the message she wants to share with other survivors and those in the juvenile justice system:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You’re not alone. Exactly what you feel [right now], I felt it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how ugly it may look right now, whatever your situation is, it will get better. You have to keep swimming, just like Dory in “Finding Nemo,” you must keep swimming because the moment you stop swimming, you could potentially drown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On her new passion — cooking — and where she finds culinary inspiration:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My nana would prepare the best dinners. Unfortunately, she passed when I was 10. When I started going into group homes and juvenile halls, that passion for cooking followed. I recall being in group homes, and I’m like, ‘Who made the mac and cheese? 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My school setting wasn’t like everyone else’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by absorbing the knowledge from these amazing chefs that have cooked all over the world, it just heightened my dream for what my culinary gifts can actually turn into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do have an LLC, Nana’s Secret, which provides catering and food services to Los Angeles County. Primarily, what I would like to do with Nana’s Secret is cooking classes for systematically impacted youth. This is my way of tying in my advocacy with my culinary endeavors, and I’m just so excited to be able to bring both of my worlds into one.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On finding resilience and strength:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You have to find the joy in the goodness and the little things, or else the bad things will just completely wear and tear you down. There’s a lot of girls that I know that are not here anymore. That’s really just a harsh reality. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a geochemistry professor at Caltech in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021777/reporters-notebook\">Pasadena\u003c/a>, Francois Tissot normally spends his time studying rocks formed at the beginning of the universe. But ever since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">wildfires \u003c/a>tore through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> in January, burning thousands of homes, the Big Bang has taken a back seat in the professor’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tissot, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\">Altadena \u003c/a>resident, has dedicated much of his lab’s resources to studying the toxic aftermath of the Eaton fire. He’s spent the last few months testing the ash that blanketed surviving homes for harmful contaminants like lead, cadmium, and arsenic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all the equipment. We have all the expertise. We’re right there,” Tissot said. “If we didn’t do it, it would be criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of graduate students, led by Tissot, has visited the homes of over 50 people who volunteered to have their properties tested. The scientists swab surfaces with wet wipes and bring samples back to the lab for analysis. All the work is done in an ultra-clean room to ensure accuracy. It even requires a uniform: lab coat, hairnet and Crocs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust from each sample gets dissolved in a vial and sucked up through a machine called a mass spectrometer, which spits out data on a spreadsheet. \u003ca href=\"https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/sustainability/ask-expert-sustainability/ask-expert-fires/francois-tissot-lead-water-soil-ash-eaton-fire/lead-dust-ash-water-eaton-fire-francois-tissot\">The results are a wake-up call.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Francois Tissot holds samples taken from debris left by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., which are now being studied for the potential risks of living amid environmental contamination. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The answer is there’s a lot of lead everywhere,” Tissot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside more than half of the homes tested, lead was detected at levels over the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. One home even had 30 times the limit. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there’s no safe level of lead exposure for children, and even small amounts can directly hinder children’s brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results from Caltech’s study are personally disturbing for Tissot—his own home was one of the first tested by the lab. It survived the fire, while the rest of his block was leveled. Since January, Francois has thrown himself into this project and is treating his house like any other testing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in the house without having to do anything is so depressing,” Tissot said. “This project gives a sense of purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contamination close to home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tissot and his family have lived in faculty housing near campus since they evacuated during the Eaton fire in January. Outside his house in Altadena, Christmas lights are still up, and there’s a rotting box of subscription produce on the doorstep. It was eerily quiet as we drove down his empty street in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_17-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like two parallel worlds,” Tissots said, taking in the sight of his mid-century home. “I can remember exactly how it used to look and everything. Every time I visit, it’s like overprinting a nice memory with an image of devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the house seemed okay, but closer inspection revealed the extent of the damage. What used to be astroturf is now a bubbly black puddle of plastic. The walls of the house cracked, plastic window frames melted, and the roof got so hot it dripped molten tar into the attic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So clearly the house has sustained a very intense thermal event. It went through hell,” Tissot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To add insult to injury, the place has been looted. But that’s actually the least of Tissot’s problems because, based on the tests conducted in his lab, the house is chemically compromised. Every room contains lead that is over the EPA limit. His youngest daughter’s room is especially bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no cleaning her stuffed animals. There is no getting her clothes back,” Tissot said. “That room is completely contaminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the lead testing project and his usual geochemistry research, Francois is spending almost every day on the phone with his home insurance, struggling to get professional remediation services and follow-up lead testing covered. He’s been told that once cleaning is complete, it means the house is clean—no follow-up testing necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A board outlining the research project led by Professor Francois Tissot, in collaboration with graduate student Merrit McDowell, is displayed inside Tissot’s office at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on April 4, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a scientist, that’s not sufficient,” Tissot said. “I’m not going to put my kids back in a house that they haven’t demonstrated is fully clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ongoing frustration with his insurance, Tissot is committed to staying in Altadena, the place he’s called home for the last six years. He was drawn to the area because it reminded him of the French countryside where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get bobcats and coyotes. There’s something very primal to being connected to nature that way, which I greatly enjoy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his home isn’t proven to be lead-free, Tissot said he is willing to demolish and rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The results are in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The map of homes tested by Caltech is a collection of red, orange, and yellow squares, representing homes with elevated levels of lead, and green squares, with minimal levels of the element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chan’s house in Glendale — a 20-minute drive from the burn scar in Altadena — is an orange square. She has a four-year-old daughter and isn’t thrilled by the results, which indicated high levels of lead are present all over the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-1-scaled-e1744312755484.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035420\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-1-scaled-e1744312755484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Altadena and Pasadena, Caltech scientists found a dangerous blanket of lead on most indoor surfaces that had been left undisturbed since the Eaton Fire in January. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m more worried because I thought everything was okay,” Chan said. “But there hasn’t been any kind of guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tissot met up with Chan to talk through the best course of action. According to the professor, because the extent of lead detected inside is less than in some other houses — and, under the EPA limit — Chan may be able to clean surfaces with a wet wipe rather than pay for professional remediation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-2-e1744312836350.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035423\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-2-e1744312836350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1389\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltech scientists swabbed patio furniture, kid’s toys and tool sheds to determine the amount of lead coating outdoor surfaces in the Los Angeles area after the Eaton Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, Tissot admits, administering this kind of advice is outside of his expertise. So, he’s sharing his testing with Pasadena and L.A. County Departments of Public Health so they can issue official recommendations for addressing this invisible chemical danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Caltech’s results, a spokesperson for the City of Pasadena shared a statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These independent data collection efforts offer important pieces of the puzzle, valuable to the overall assessment of environmental conditions in Pasadena and throughout the region. We are tracking these studies closely and issuing relevant public health guidance when needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They linked to a guide on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpasadena.net/eaton-fire/#returning-home-faqs\">Returning Home After a Fire\u003c/a>” and recommend that homeowners consult a remediation professional to determine individualized guidance. The L.A. County Department of Public Health directs residents to \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Wildfire/\">their own post-wildfire safety guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Altadena residents are mapping a “Toxic Soup”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scientists aren’t the only ones keeping tabs on lead in the community. A coalition of Altadena residents called Eaton Fire Residents United (EFRU) has published their own map visualizing the results of commercially conducted contaminant tests, some paid for by people’s insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena resident and data scientist Nicole Maccalla developed the map. She’s collaborating with Tissot to incorporate Caltech’s data and highlight the common theme between their findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story is there is widespread contamination, and it goes well beyond the burn zone, way further than just Pasadena,” Maccalla said. “I don’t think the public knows that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=16rCPm17KBRKnxRTX37hf5DBeY7yy9Vw&ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, new residents are emailing EFRU to share their own testing results for the map. That’s keeping Maccalla busy, on top of dealing with her own house in Altadena, which is currently unliveable, a situation shared by many members of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m behind on everything in life right now,” Maccalla said. “We’re all juggling multiple things, plus trying to take care of our displaced families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s proud of the community engagement represented by the project but is disappointed in what she feels is a lack of government response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not our day job,” Maccalla said. “I think it’s ridiculous that it’s not the public health department or the county or the state or insurance companies sharing information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maccalla would like to see public health officials going door-to-door to ensure everyone is safe from toxic chemicals, including lead as well as other hazards, like asbestos. According to Maccalla, elders and non-English speakers are particularly vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody even knows you need to clean or what cleaning entails. We won’t know if cleaning works unless we test,” Maccalla said. “Why is this on individual residents? Why are we going to let our community sit under a toxic soup?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EFRU map is set to be updated on a weekly basis as more results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postdoctoral researcher Theo Tacali works inside the Mass Spec Room, analyzing data from the project he leads at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on April 4, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caltech received over 400 requests from volunteers hoping to have their properties tested by the school. Tissot is still fielding regular emails from people asking for his help. While the Caltech study is at capacity, other universities, \u003ca href=\"https://publicexchange.usc.edu/la-wildfire-soil-testing/\">including USC\u003c/a>, are also collecting contamination samples. The L.A. County Department of Public Health is publishing the \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/wildfire/post_fire_assessment_plan.htm\">results from these institutions’ efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Tissot’s team plans to retest the same 50 homes included in his study – once debris removal is complete – to track the extent of contamination over time. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of graduate students, led by Tissot, has visited the homes of over 50 people who volunteered to have their properties tested. The scientists swab surfaces with wet wipes and bring samples back to the lab for analysis. All the work is done in an ultra-clean room to ensure accuracy. It even requires a uniform: lab coat, hairnet and Crocs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust from each sample gets dissolved in a vial and sucked up through a machine called a mass spectrometer, which spits out data on a spreadsheet. \u003ca href=\"https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/sustainability/ask-expert-sustainability/ask-expert-fires/francois-tissot-lead-water-soil-ash-eaton-fire/lead-dust-ash-water-eaton-fire-francois-tissot\">The results are a wake-up call.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Francois Tissot holds samples taken from debris left by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., which are now being studied for the potential risks of living amid environmental contamination. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The answer is there’s a lot of lead everywhere,” Tissot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside more than half of the homes tested, lead was detected at levels over the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. One home even had 30 times the limit. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there’s no safe level of lead exposure for children, and even small amounts can directly hinder children’s brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results from Caltech’s study are personally disturbing for Tissot—his own home was one of the first tested by the lab. It survived the fire, while the rest of his block was leveled. Since January, Francois has thrown himself into this project and is treating his house like any other testing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in the house without having to do anything is so depressing,” Tissot said. “This project gives a sense of purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contamination close to home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tissot and his family have lived in faculty housing near campus since they evacuated during the Eaton fire in January. Outside his house in Altadena, Christmas lights are still up, and there’s a rotting box of subscription produce on the doorstep. It was eerily quiet as we drove down his empty street in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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His youngest daughter’s room is especially bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no cleaning her stuffed animals. There is no getting her clothes back,” Tissot said. “That room is completely contaminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the lead testing project and his usual geochemistry research, Francois is spending almost every day on the phone with his home insurance, struggling to get professional remediation services and follow-up lead testing covered. He’s been told that once cleaning is complete, it means the house is clean—no follow-up testing necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A board outlining the research project led by Professor Francois Tissot, in collaboration with graduate student Merrit McDowell, is displayed inside Tissot’s office at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on April 4, 2025. 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There’s something very primal to being connected to nature that way, which I greatly enjoy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his home isn’t proven to be lead-free, Tissot said he is willing to demolish and rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The results are in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The map of homes tested by Caltech is a collection of red, orange, and yellow squares, representing homes with elevated levels of lead, and green squares, with minimal levels of the element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chan’s house in Glendale — a 20-minute drive from the burn scar in Altadena — is an orange square. 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"content": "\u003cp>“It woke you up in a way where you felt your humanity and you felt the humanity of the people around you. You understood what it felt like to really love people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t stop thinking about this line from my friend Tara Zorthian. I was interviewing her about her former home, the Zorthian Ranch, which burned down in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\"> the Eaton Canyon fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was searching to capture the meaning of a place that is impossible to define.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a ranch. An artist community. A homestead. A portal to a different way of life. But there’s something else going on there. A sense of magic, hidden in the mountains, that reveals itself to those who leave behind the trappings of modern urban life and surrender to the silliest, most whimsical, most open version of themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have witnessed this place transform people. It even happened to me, a journalist from New Jersey with a rather serious disposition. I only lived at the Ranch for a matter of months, but have been a visitor for much longer. And during that time, I unlocked a new version of myself that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1920x1189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Writer Sam Anderson outside a burned out bus at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. (Right) One of the burned vehicles on the ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I came to the Ranch was in 2019 for a volunteer workday. As my tiny Volkswagen rattled across the precarious bridge and up the windy dirt road, I felt nervous with anticipation. What is this place? How does it possibly exist among the dense urban sprawl of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I arrived at the top of the road to find a rambling property filled with strange buildings and objects. Art was everywhere. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I joined a group of twenty or so people engaged in some form of toiling. I can’t remember what we did that day – probably pulled weeds or tossed some rocks into a pile or something similar. It was a sweltering summer day and by the afternoon everyone was covered in dirt and sweat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s emblazoned in my memory forever is what happened after the work was done. Everyone stripped completely naked and jumped in the pool. Music turned on. Drinks appeared. A raucous party began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool was perched on top of a mountain with a panoramic view of Los Angeles. As the sun began to set over the hills, brilliant shades of orange and pink blazed across the sky and I had an indescribable feeling that I tapped into something special. What was this community I had encountered, filled with such creative, brilliant people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came back as frequently as I could, driven by some deep impulse that what I experienced there was magic. I couldn’t quite define the feeling, but I knew I wanted more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, I got to know the place and its people in a more intimate way. Words are a poor substitute for what I experienced there, but it involved strange art performances, puppet shows,\u003ca href=\"https://slamgranderson.substack.com/p/zorthian-ranch-pizza-party\"> pizza parties\u003c/a> and surrealist dinners, costumes and music of all types, deep conversations, sleepovers with friends, staying up all night until the sunrise and a profound sense of love and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Tara said, it woke you up. You felt your humanity. You understood what it meant to really love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My experience is but a small fraction of what the Zorthian Ranch really was — and is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch has been around for nearly a century. It was founded by Jirayr Zorthian, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, who over the years developed a unique space that was both homestead and social scene. It became a magnet for bohemian artists in the ’50s and ’60s. It hosted countless parties, shows and performances, and over the years what happened to me — the discovery of magic within myself — happened to hundreds, if not thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Zorthian, a granddaughter of founder Jirayr Zorthian, at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. She lived on the ranch for eight years before moving away two years ago. The Eaton fire destroyed several structures as well as vegetation on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cliche is that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. But I think we did know. All of us who lived, visited and participated in the Ranch came away with a sense of how special it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of producing this non-narrated radio piece, I set out to capture that sense of specialness. And I knew that would be a challenge from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the 20 people who used to live here are now displaced. The community has scattered. Where previously I could simply show up and find several people to talk to, now I had to go about tracking them down to the various friend’s houses (and couches) where they were staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge was trying to wrap my arms around such a sprawling subject. I understood that ultimately, any attempt to tell the entire story of the Zorthian Ranch in a single piece would be doomed to failure. I myself had actually tried — and failed — before. Along with a colleague of mine, I set out to uncover the fate of The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training, which is the most enduring mystery of the Zorthian Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Jirayr Zorthian created his greatest artwork of all time — a true masterpiece — in the form of a 157-foot mural that was first installed at the Pentagon, then possibly shuffled around other military locations, before it was lost forever.[aside postID=news_12029129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/0A4A3428-1020x680.jpg']The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. And unfortunately, that kind of magic is not available to very many people these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastating fire that destroyed Altadena — and most of the Zorthian Ranch — exposed the fragility of so many broken systems in the Western way of life: the lack of affordable housing or any real social safety net, the way we’ve ravaged our ecosystem and ignored Indigenous knowledge around fire, the lack of access to green open spaces for city dwellers and the difficulty of sourcing local and sustainable food products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193000280-1020x653.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among the most important gaps in our current way of life is cultivating places to gather together, with the people you love, and experience what it is to be a human in communion with other humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that way, the Zorthian Ranch is more than a place in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026093/they-want-to-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire-but-first-comes-the-struggle-to-survive\">Altadena\u003c/a>. It’s an idea. And ideas cannot be destroyed by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My hope is that by sharing stories about places like the Ranch, we keep alive the idea that cultivating spaces for community to gather together in love and creativity is among the most important things we will ever do in our lifetimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m excited to watch how the Zorthians choose to rebuild. If you want to help contribute to those efforts, you can\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/Support-zorthian-ranch\"> support their fundraiser\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this place that transformed the lives of so many people is undergoing a great transformation of its own. Jirayr’s son Alan is steadfast in his commitment to rebuilding. Cleanup efforts are ongoing, and some residents have already begun to move back to the Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the past is any indication, the future of the Zorthian Ranch will be something special to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came back as frequently as I could, driven by some deep impulse that what I experienced there was magic. I couldn’t quite define the feeling, but I knew I wanted more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, I got to know the place and its people in a more intimate way. Words are a poor substitute for what I experienced there, but it involved strange art performances, puppet shows,\u003ca href=\"https://slamgranderson.substack.com/p/zorthian-ranch-pizza-party\"> pizza parties\u003c/a> and surrealist dinners, costumes and music of all types, deep conversations, sleepovers with friends, staying up all night until the sunrise and a profound sense of love and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Tara said, it woke you up. You felt your humanity. You understood what it meant to really love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My experience is but a small fraction of what the Zorthian Ranch really was — and is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch has been around for nearly a century. It was founded by Jirayr Zorthian, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, who over the years developed a unique space that was both homestead and social scene. It became a magnet for bohemian artists in the ’50s and ’60s. It hosted countless parties, shows and performances, and over the years what happened to me — the discovery of magic within myself — happened to hundreds, if not thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Zorthian, a granddaughter of founder Jirayr Zorthian, at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. She lived on the ranch for eight years before moving away two years ago. The Eaton fire destroyed several structures as well as vegetation on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cliche is that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. But I think we did know. All of us who lived, visited and participated in the Ranch came away with a sense of how special it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of producing this non-narrated radio piece, I set out to capture that sense of specialness. And I knew that would be a challenge from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the 20 people who used to live here are now displaced. The community has scattered. Where previously I could simply show up and find several people to talk to, now I had to go about tracking them down to the various friend’s houses (and couches) where they were staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge was trying to wrap my arms around such a sprawling subject. I understood that ultimately, any attempt to tell the entire story of the Zorthian Ranch in a single piece would be doomed to failure. I myself had actually tried — and failed — before. Along with a colleague of mine, I set out to uncover the fate of The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training, which is the most enduring mystery of the Zorthian Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Jirayr Zorthian created his greatest artwork of all time — a true masterpiece — in the form of a 157-foot mural that was first installed at the Pentagon, then possibly shuffled around other military locations, before it was lost forever.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. And unfortunately, that kind of magic is not available to very many people these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastating fire that destroyed Altadena — and most of the Zorthian Ranch — exposed the fragility of so many broken systems in the Western way of life: the lack of affordable housing or any real social safety net, the way we’ve ravaged our ecosystem and ignored Indigenous knowledge around fire, the lack of access to green open spaces for city dwellers and the difficulty of sourcing local and sustainable food products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A few weeks after the fire, Justin Murphy counted off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">houses that burned\u003c/a> on this cul-de-sac in northeast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026093/they-want-to-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire-but-first-comes-the-struggle-to-survive\">Altadena\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That one down there was the first,” he said, pointing to the end of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a century, eight homes stood on this quiet, secluded street with panoramic views of the San Gabriel Mountains. Now, there are just two: A neighbor’s place across the street and the one belonging to Murphy’s 93-year-old mother, Jane Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wee hours of Jan. 8, and as flames bore down on the neighborhood, Murphy whisked his mom to safety and then raced back up the house. He and his brother had stayed up all night battling\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025125/advice-to-those-recovering-from-wildfire-from-northern-californians-whove-been-there\"> the disastrous Eaton fire\u003c/a> with hoses, buckets and sprinklers — ultimately saving the home their parents bought 65 years ago but losing a detached garage and study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Murphy said her sons’ action that night not only saved her home, but others as well. Had her house and another across the street caught fire, they likely would have ignited others downwind of the cul-de-sac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old street signs scorched by the fires, photographed at the Murphy home in Altadena, California, on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He saved their ass,” she said, explaining that Justin also created a text chain to deliver updates to over a dozen evacuated neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting upon that night while sitting in the family home’s spacious living room, Murphy said he was still processing the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really do believe that by what we did, we didn’t give the fire a foothold in this house,” he said. “And maybe on some level, I wasn’t afraid of the fire. I was willing to take the risk, to protect what’s ours and protect this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some combination of courage, adrenaline and profound attachment to their community kept Murphy and a handful of other holdouts on the ground— even as the fire immolated scores of homes around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three miles away, in southwest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022718/altadena-rallies-to-rebuild-burned-spiritual-centers\">Altadena\u003c/a>, retired U.S. Army Special Forces medic Tom Salinas made the same risk calculation the night of the fire as flames bore down on his neighborhood. His partner, Anna, insisted he evacuate. She said the house wasn’t worth the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/0A4A3428-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not it,” he said, as he tinkered with his vintage Volkswagen bug. “I said, ‘In the military, if you have a combatant injured in front of you as a medic, I can’t watch you die. I don’t have a choice,’” he told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘There’s two types of people: the ones that run to the fire, and the ones that run from the fire,” Salinas said. “I’m forever going to be the idiot that runs to the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Salinas’ neighborhood, the homes tend to be smaller, and income levels a bit lower. It’s where Black and Latino homeowners were able to build up generational wealth at a time when they were denied mortgages in other parts of greater Los Angeles. But none of that mattered to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only protective measure Salinas took while battling the fire was to pull his T-shirt collar up over his mouth and nose. No mask, no goggles, no protective clothing. An avid motorcyclist and thrill seeker, he admits being an adrenaline junkie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love being scared,” he said. “I can go to Magic Mountain [Six Flags] on any ride, any theme park. I enjoy being flipped upside down and turned around. It’s just the greatest feeling,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Salinas, photographed at his home in Altadena, California, on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For two weeks, strict military-enforced security checkpoints blocked anybody trying to get into Altadena. Police also arrested suspected looters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy was detained a few times himself while out on the street. He could have left anytime he wanted, but crossing the checkpoint meant not being able to return. At some checkpoints, though, police would allow supplies to be handed off to non-evacuees. That’s how he was able to get hold of a few essential items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived through the fire, and I lived after the fire, and I lived kind of as an outcast, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were going to their jobs, going to the market, doing their thing, and it was difficult not to be able to do that,” Murphy said. “But in a weird way, it made me look at myself and do some self-review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the fire was out, Salinas stayed busy and kept a routine. He cleaned up ash and soot as best he could, collected all the busted tree limbs and shingles that blew into people’s yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026093 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_6303-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made friends with a few other neighbors who also refused to leave. That included Carlos, a guy Tom had never spoken to but was sure was a neighborhood troublemaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The (guy) that I thought was a cold-hearted, mean thug turned out to be this wonderful guy,” Salinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To his surprise, the fire brought neighbors who barely knew each other together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Him and I were inseparable because we’d been through the same thing. We ended up putting hoses together and putting out fires on the roofs and in bushes, all these houses up and down the street. We did as much as we could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas, Carlos and other neighbors also battled looters. With properties still on fire, thieves smashed into evacuated houses — including one right across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a chance to get to know all the neighbors,” Salinas said. “Carlos, Leandro, Martha— they’re like my family. Because I realized that I’m not in the fight alone, I didn’t have no fear,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Salinas, photographed at his home in Altadena, California along with his dog on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas wasn’t thrown by the fire, nor does he fret over the scores of properties all around him heaped with rubble laden with asbestos, lead and other toxins that can pose health risks. While the EPA has mostly completed\u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-completes-household-hazardous-materials-cleanup-response-los-angeles-wildfires\"> phase one\u003c/a> of debris removal in Altadena, the agency said dozens of properties are still considered too dangerous to enter and clear of toxic materials. Meanwhile, the removal of hard structural debris, phase two, is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exposure worries Murphy a bit, but he shares Salinas’ sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some people that are throwing out their mattresses because some smoke damage came into their house, and I guess I don’t live in that camp. I cleaned everything out. I washed all the curtains. I washed all the floors. I’m not letting that fear rule my mind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Murphy’s mother went right back home as soon as security checkpoints were lifted. She’s also resumed her daily two-mile walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am well known in the neighborhood,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A licensed therapist for about 50 years, Murphy continues to be someone her neighbors can lean on for some sense of normalcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193000280-1020x653.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of these people by their first names, many of whom have either lost their houses or can’t live in their houses because of the smoke,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a little prayer, and I will say that to myself as I go by people’s burned houses,” Murphy said. “I also greet people, they come up and hug me because they’re so happy to see me because I represent some stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because these holdouts have confronted the danger head-on doesn’t mean they’re unaffected by the trauma of losing so much of their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Murphys can’t look outside or walk down the street without seeing widespread destruction. The same goes for Salinas and his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Man, I know what it’s like, and I don’t want to see it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unflappable in front of the fire, Salinas stays away from the ruins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even go to a funeral. I don’t do well with grief in this world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wee hours of Jan. 8, and as flames bore down on the neighborhood, Murphy whisked his mom to safety and then raced back up the house. He and his brother had stayed up all night battling\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025125/advice-to-those-recovering-from-wildfire-from-northern-californians-whove-been-there\"> the disastrous Eaton fire\u003c/a> with hoses, buckets and sprinklers — ultimately saving the home their parents bought 65 years ago but losing a detached garage and study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Murphy said her sons’ action that night not only saved her home, but others as well. Had her house and another across the street caught fire, they likely would have ignited others downwind of the cul-de-sac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old street signs scorched by the fires, photographed at the Murphy home in Altadena, California, on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He saved their ass,” she said, explaining that Justin also created a text chain to deliver updates to over a dozen evacuated neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting upon that night while sitting in the family home’s spacious living room, Murphy said he was still processing the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really do believe that by what we did, we didn’t give the fire a foothold in this house,” he said. “And maybe on some level, I wasn’t afraid of the fire. I was willing to take the risk, to protect what’s ours and protect this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some combination of courage, adrenaline and profound attachment to their community kept Murphy and a handful of other holdouts on the ground— even as the fire immolated scores of homes around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three miles away, in southwest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022718/altadena-rallies-to-rebuild-burned-spiritual-centers\">Altadena\u003c/a>, retired U.S. Army Special Forces medic Tom Salinas made the same risk calculation the night of the fire as flames bore down on his neighborhood. His partner, Anna, insisted he evacuate. She said the house wasn’t worth the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Six weeks after the start of the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential blaze and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall over responsibility for the devastation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass, a first-term Democrat, said she is removing Chief Kristin Crowley immediately. “Los Angeles needs to move forward. This is a new day,” she told reporters at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bass initially praised Crowley in the early hours of firefighting, she said she later learned an additional 1,000 firefighters could have been deployed the day the blaze ignited. Additionally, she said Crowley rebuffed a request to prepare a report on the fires that is a critical part of investigations into what happened and why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thousand firefighters who could have been on the job fighting the fires were sent home” on Crowley’s watch, Bass said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Powerful winds fueled devastating fires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/fires-los-angeles-area-wildfires-wildfires-los-angeles-dominic-choi-6ff44671637a495aba05fb6238130244\">The Palisades Fire began during heavy winds\u003c/a> Jan. 7, destroying or damaging nearly 8,000 homes, businesses and other structures and killing at least 12 people in the affluent LA neighborhood. Another \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/wildfires-los-angeles-patrick-williams-los-angeles-area-wildfires-california-c9dd064e451e469684da2b770c1014dc\">wind-whipped fire started the same day in suburban Altadena\u003c/a>, a community to the east, killing at least 17 people and destroying or damaging more than 10,000 homes and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass has been facing criticism for being in Africa as part of a presidential delegation on the day the fire started, even though weather reports had warned of dangerous wind and wildfire conditions in the days before she left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at City Hall, Bass said Crowley never notified her of the looming danger before she departed, even though that was standard practice since she took office in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has my cellphone. She knows she can call me 24/7,” Bass said. “That did not happen this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At City Hall, Bass was pressed again on how she could have been unaware of the fire risk before leaving the country, given widespread media coverage about intensifying winds and tinder-dry conditions. She didn’t appear to respond directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Fire Department said it had no comment about the ousting of the chief. Crowley could not immediately be reached for comment. The mayor’s office said the former chief exercised her Civil Service rights to stay with the department but at a lower, yet-to-be determined rank.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chief was appointed during period of turmoil for LAFD\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Crowley was named fire chief in 2022 by Bass’ predecessor at a time when the department was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-fire-chief-crowley-bass-9076f31e7929b559e3afede572e119a4\">in turmoil\u003c/a> over allegations of rampant harassment, hazing and discrimination. She worked for the city fire department for more than 25 years and held nearly every role, including fire marshal, engineer and battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her dismissal followed weeks of growing distance between the mayor and Crowley. As chief, Crowley \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-fire-chief-crowley-bass-9076f31e7929b559e3afede572e119a4\">publicly criticized\u003c/a> the city for budget cuts that she said made it harder for firefighters to do their jobs. In January, when the Palisades fire was out of control, Crowley said in televised interviews that her department was underfunded and understaffed and emergency vehicles had been idled because the LAFD didn’t have the mechanics to fix them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass said Friday that the budget was increased, not slashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billionaire developer Rick Caruso, who was defeated by Bass in the 2022 election and has been critical of her wildfire management, called Crowley’s dismissal “very disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief “spoke honestly about the severe and profoundly ill-conceived budget cuts the Bass administration made to the LAFD,” Caruso said in a post on the social platform X. “Honesty in a high city official should not be a firing offense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Karen Bass announces the firing of Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley and the appointment of former Chief Deputy Ronnie Villanueva as interim fire chief in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb.21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Drew A. Kelley/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Africa trip has left mayor facing lingering questions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since returning to the U.S. last month, an at-times defensive Bass had provided only sketchy insight into her thinking in the days leading up to her departure for Africa. Her absence quickly became an embarrassment — on her return, she appeared silent with a blank expression when intercepted on camera by a reporter at the airport, who asked repeatedly why she had been gone and if she had regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In televised interviews this week, Bass acknowledged she made a mistake by leaving the city. But she faulted Crowley for failing to alert her about the potentially explosive fire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor’s tenure reshaped by deadly fire and rebuilding job\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bass’ handling of the Palisades fire and the vast rebuilding job will be the measure of her tenure. She has said that she intends to seek reelection in 2026.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021777,news_12022708,news_12022659\"]Bass, a former legislator and member of Congress who was on former President Joe Biden’s vice presidential short list, is known for an understated, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-ca-state-wire-sacramento-arnold-schwarzenegger-97f619d33c6bbb208b3aebb4e8178b0b\">coalition-building\u003c/a> style. Her \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mayor-karen-bass-la-fires-leadership-99e52cf69cc656ee7e0328c6b609be74\">leadership\u003c/a> is being tested as the cleanup and recovery get underway involving the Trump administration, the state, Los Angeles County, the city and other municipalities damaged in the fires, along with an array of government agencies and private interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions already have emerged, including local political rivalries, while Trump has been critical of state \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-water-trump-delta-smelt-farmers-943082304d6ec61511fb1a0b95ca771a\">water policy.\u003c/a> Questions have been raised about who is in charge of the rebuilding, with so many entities and officials involved. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has assembled a group of business leaders to dovetail with the larger reconstruction effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is her first major challenge and she is going to be judged on it, and that could be good or bad,” longtime Democratic consultant Bill Carrick said. For the moment, “she seems to be struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to a reporter, Bass disputed the idea that her administration is in upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The business of the fire department and the city will continue” while the search for a permanent replacement is underway, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Another \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/wildfires-los-angeles-patrick-williams-los-angeles-area-wildfires-california-c9dd064e451e469684da2b770c1014dc\">wind-whipped fire started the same day in suburban Altadena\u003c/a>, a community to the east, killing at least 17 people and destroying or damaging more than 10,000 homes and other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass has been facing criticism for being in Africa as part of a presidential delegation on the day the fire started, even though weather reports had warned of dangerous wind and wildfire conditions in the days before she left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at City Hall, Bass said Crowley never notified her of the looming danger before she departed, even though that was standard practice since she took office in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has my cellphone. She knows she can call me 24/7,” Bass said. “That did not happen this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At City Hall, Bass was pressed again on how she could have been unaware of the fire risk before leaving the country, given widespread media coverage about intensifying winds and tinder-dry conditions. She didn’t appear to respond directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Fire Department said it had no comment about the ousting of the chief. Crowley could not immediately be reached for comment. The mayor’s office said the former chief exercised her Civil Service rights to stay with the department but at a lower, yet-to-be determined rank.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chief was appointed during period of turmoil for LAFD\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Crowley was named fire chief in 2022 by Bass’ predecessor at a time when the department was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-fire-chief-crowley-bass-9076f31e7929b559e3afede572e119a4\">in turmoil\u003c/a> over allegations of rampant harassment, hazing and discrimination. She worked for the city fire department for more than 25 years and held nearly every role, including fire marshal, engineer and battalion chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her dismissal followed weeks of growing distance between the mayor and Crowley. As chief, Crowley \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-fire-chief-crowley-bass-9076f31e7929b559e3afede572e119a4\">publicly criticized\u003c/a> the city for budget cuts that she said made it harder for firefighters to do their jobs. In January, when the Palisades fire was out of control, Crowley said in televised interviews that her department was underfunded and understaffed and emergency vehicles had been idled because the LAFD didn’t have the mechanics to fix them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass said Friday that the budget was increased, not slashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billionaire developer Rick Caruso, who was defeated by Bass in the 2022 election and has been critical of her wildfire management, called Crowley’s dismissal “very disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief “spoke honestly about the severe and profoundly ill-conceived budget cuts the Bass administration made to the LAFD,” Caruso said in a post on the social platform X. “Honesty in a high city official should not be a firing offense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2200361855-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Karen Bass announces the firing of Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley and the appointment of former Chief Deputy Ronnie Villanueva as interim fire chief in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb.21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Drew A. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> insurance regulators have approved a request from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">California FAIR Plan\u003c/a>, the state’s insurer of last resort, to get money from regular insurers to help pay customer claims from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">the Los Angeles Fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1 billion will be collected from private insurance companies in California to keep the FAIR Plan solvent. Insurance companies will be able to pass on $500 million to their policyholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR plan is a not-for-profit insurer offering coverage to homeowners who can’t get it through normal insurance companies. That means it takes the riskiest homes. The plan’s liabilities more than doubled between 2020 and 2024 as traditional insurers pulled back from California. Industry observers expected that a large fire could wipe out the FAIR Plan’s reserves despite the high premiums charged for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been warned for many years. Nobody should be surprised that this happened. It’s unfortunate,” said Mark Friedlander of the Insurance Information Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sign of a stressed and sickly insurance market, he added, placing the blame on outdated 1980s-era insurance regulations that the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014632/california-insurance-regulators-aim-ease-coverage-crisis-new-rules\">finally updated in late 2024\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[California had an] antiquated regulatory environment, which is now, of course, being addressed by the insurance commissioner’s Sustainable Insurance Strategy,” Friedlander said. “It will take several years for that strategy to have full impacts in the market, where the market could begin to stabilize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022444\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Oct. 13, 2017, file photo, a row of chimneys stand in a neighborhood devastated by the Tubbs Fire near Santa Rosa, California. In an order dated July 12, 2021, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel ruled that California Insurance Commissioner Richard Lara has the power to order the state’s “Insurer of last resort” to offer more options for homeowners who can’t buy traditional coverage because they live in areas threatened by wildfires. \u003ccite>(Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emily Rogan, a senior program officer with United Policyholders, a nonprofit that helps consumers navigate after disasters, referred to the situation as sad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is making sure that the policyholders in the L.A. fires have their claims paid out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR Plan is a necessity, Rogan explained, because for-profit insurance companies can’t be counted on to offer coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If split evenly among California’s eight million home-owning households, the $500 million would be about $60 per household. However, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0300-insurers/0200-bulletins/bulletin-notices-commiss-opinion/upload/Bulletin-2025-4-Updated-Guidance-regarding-Insurer-Recoupment-Procedures-in-Response-to-Assessment-by-the-FAIR-Plan.pdf\">guidance issued this week\u003c/a> (PDF) to companies by the Department of Insurance, Commissioner Ricardo Lara specified that the fee should be a percentage of each policyholder’s premium. People with more expensive insurance will pay a larger share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021019 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSoCal4AP.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the fees will show up on bills is undetermined and will be hammered out in the coming months. The fee will be temporary and cannot be folded into insurance rates. The total amount should be collected within two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a precedent for supplemental insurance fees. Following several seasons of bad hurricanes in the 2000s, Florida’s insurer of last resort was bailed out, with property insurance policyholders shouldering the entire cost. In California, the FAIR plan last needed rescuing three decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, fires consumed parts of Altadena, Malibu and Topanga, some overlapping with the footprint of the January fires in Los Angeles. The 1994 Northridge Earthquake, one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/earthquakes/northridge\">costliest natural disasters\u003c/a> in the nation’s history, hit the same region. Thousands of homes were destroyed and freeways collapsed. Thousands were injured and 72 people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the disaster, insurance companies decided they no longer wanted to cover earthquake damage. California was too risky, so they stopped writing policies in the state. The state Legislature created the \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/press-room/press-releases/2019/northridge-earthquake-remembered-one-costliest-natural-disasters-in\">California Earthquake Authority\u003c/a>, which provides pricey earthquake insurance and permits standard insurers to exclude earthquake coverage from their property insurance policies. The result is that, according to CEA, only about 13% of Californians who have residential insurance also have earthquake insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers came back to the state, but more residents are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993316/california-shows-where-insurers-would-need-to-boost-coverage-in-fire-prone-areas\">at risk of being uncovered\u003c/a> when the next Big One hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instability after Northridge could have been a wake-up call about the danger of an unhealthy insurance market. Instead, following disastrous fires starting in 2017, the market again destabilized to the point of approaching collapse because too many Californians rely on the FAIR Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Lara has looked at what happened [after those disasters] and decided we didn’t learn the right lesson,” said Michael Soller, a Department of Insurance spokesperson. “We need to stay on and strengthen the mitigation path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making homes safer is the path forward, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California can’t get to the point where insurance companies don’t want to cover fire damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Months before the Eaton Fire tore through Altadena, Calif., destroying more than 9,400 homes and buildings, the community had already been debating a fateful question: are there places too risky for new housing to be built?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many communities, Altadena had grown over decades with little consideration of the risk of wildfires. Houses spread steadily into the foothills, nestled against the dense, flammable brush of the San Gabriel Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Los Angeles County officials considered a new land use plan, one that would control building decisions for Altadena and the surrounding area for decades to come. The plan sought to balance two major problems. To address a housing shortage, more density would be allowed in the interior of Altadena. To reduce the danger from wildfires, new construction would be restricted in the foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the affected landowners pushed back, saying the plan devalued their property and their rights to use it. Those same tensions about where to build housing are playing out around the country, as hurricanes, floods and wildfires get more extreme as the climate gets hotter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building regulation decisions generally fall to local elected officials, who have to balance their constituents’ concerns about land use with the reality of a national housing shortage and growing threat of extreme weather. As a result, few communities around the country have adopted strict development limits to reduce the risk of disasters. Now, as it picks up the pieces after the fires, Altadena will follow those new development rules as it rebuilds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody likes to hear about constraints but at the same time, do we want our neighborhoods to burn down?” says Jennifer Balch, professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. “There are things that we can do and should be doing to mitigate that risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025114\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-800x266.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-1020x339.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-1536x510.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The danger of wildfires was well-known to Los Angeles County. California is one of a handful of states that has mapped where the highest risk areas are. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Altadena foreshadows a disaster\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the weeks after the Eaton fire, Nic Arnzen was running on little sleep. He was searching for temporary housing after he and his family lost their Altadena home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was completely gone,” Arnzen says. “I keep telling people the fridge was gone. I don’t understand how a fridge just disappears to dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Arnzen had the whole community to think of. As vice chair of the Altadena Town Council, he and his colleagues were juggling the logistics of a disaster. Already, many residents were vowing to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus needs to be on: what can we plan for now?” Arnzen says. “How can we know the danger we live in now, and try to improve it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena had already been trying to plan for wildfires. Los Angeles County officials had been working on the \u003ca href=\"https://planning.lacounty.gov/long-range-planning/wsgvap/\">West San Gabriel Valley Area Plan\u003c/a>, a plan that would control building decisions through new zoning. (Altadena is an unincorporated area, so planning decisions are made at the county level.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boosting housing is one big focus. Los Angeles is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country and as a whole, the county needs to add more than 90,000 housing units, part of a state requirement. The plan rezones land to allow for higher density of buildings and apartments along Altadena’s central corridors, where there’s already access to transportation and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, properties on the outskirts of Altadena would be zoned for a lower density of housing, particularly areas labeled as “very high” risk of wildfires. That would limit the construction of new homes there, part of a larger county-wide policy to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5256348/los-angeles-fires-safety-evacuation-improvement-preparation\">direct development away\u003c/a> from places that are likely to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fires in Los Angeles County could be the most expensive wildfire disaster in history. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is the example of why,” Arnzen says, referring to the Eaton Fire. “To make our town safe, we do have to have some supervision. And we hate to dictate to anyone that: no, you can’t develop even though you’ve been waiting forty years to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Plan comes down to a vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In December, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors heard that exact feedback. A group of residents who own property in the foothills \u003ca href=\"https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2024/11/30/alan-zorthian-the-problem-with-the-west-san-gabriel-valley-area-plan/\">registered their opposition\u003c/a> during public comments at a hearing for the development plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, the property is more than just land,” said Altadena resident Joseph DiMassa. “It’s 50+ acres where we imagine buildings, homes for our children, grandchildren, and possibly even future generations. The downzoning of our property from 52 homes to two isn’t just a number, it destroys the dreams we hold for our family’s future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many of the public comments were in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prevailing sentiment in Altadena is one of endorsement,” Victoria Knapp, chair of Altadena Town Council, testified at the meeting. “The plan will direct development away from the Altadena foothills and other high fire zones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time to vote, the county supervisors passed the plan. That means as Altadena rebuilds and potentially expands, zoning restrictions limiting growth in the foothills will be in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Eaton Fire, Joseph DiMassa’s daughter, Cara, says her family’s land in the foothills was burned, destroying a summer camp they run there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Altadena so much,” she says. “And all of that really is gone and it’s pretty heart-breaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1074\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-10.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-10-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-10-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-10-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under Los Angeles County’s new plan, development would be limited in the foothills of Altadena, where the wildfire risk is highest. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images/Getty Images North America)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her family had opposed the new zoning plan because they felt it drastically limited the housing that could be built on larger properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really feel like the county did not do a great job at taking a look at some of these really large parcels that are family-owned, that suddenly were becoming completely devalued,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with so much devastation from the Eaton Fire, Cara DiMassa is glad the zoning plan is in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives us hope that our hillsides will be hillsides again and I certainly don’t want to see huge developments go up,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tensions of housing needs and wildfire risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By considering wildfire risk, Los Angeles County’s land use planning is ahead of many other Western communities. County supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5256348/los-angeles-fires-safety-evacuation-improvement-preparation\">are also considering a new ordinance\u003c/a> that would put even more restrictions on construction in risky areas. The county knows which areas to target because the state \u003ca href=\"https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/community-wildfire-preparedness-and-mitigation/fire-hazard-severity-zones\">has mapped wildfire hazard zones\u003c/a>. Other states lack those maps or are in the process of developing them, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oregon-wildfire-hazard-map-45c0335d93632580e07512a276dea7da\">like Oregon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, new construction is expanding into areas that are prone to burning, known as the wildland-urban interface. Around \u003ca href=\"https://e3.eurekalert.org/news-releases/884454\">32 million homes were built\u003c/a> there between 1992 and 2015, according to one study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re building into flammable landscapes and just ignoring the fact that we’re building into flammable vegetation,” Balch says. “And we are increasingly doing that, and it’s not changing anytime soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires are also spreading more explosively, driven in part by climate change. A hotter, drier atmosphere pulls the moisture out of vegetation, making it more flammable. Balch and her colleagues found that between 2001 and 2020, there was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk5737\">400% increase in how fast fires grew\u003c/a> in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fires are getting harder to fight,” Balch says. “So we cannot expect to live in flammable landscapes, and firefighters are going to just come along and put out the ignitions in our homes. This is something we need to address well before the fire actually ignites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-11.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many communities around the country struggle with balancing the need for new housing with the growing risk from more extreme weather. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, many communities are in desperate need of new housing and elected officials may not want to appear anti-growth. New housing also means an increase in local property taxes, a key source of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Zoning laws and development regulations really do happen at local levels and so part of the challenge is: what are the incentive structures?” Balch says.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12022146,news_12022375,news_12022615\"]California legislators have attempted to address how communities build in wildfire-prone areas at a statewide level. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB182\">a bill was introduced\u003c/a> to put new restrictions on developments in risky areas, requiring them to have adequate evacuation routes and to fund programs to clear flammable vegetation. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SB-182.pdf\">vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom (PDF)\u003c/a>, who cited the state’s housing needs. Several similar bills have been introduced since then, but also failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest opponents were the builders and realtors,” says Hannah-Beth Jackson, a former California state senator who authored the vetoed bill. “People wanted to just keep building and building. The bottom line is the climate is changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When communities build in wildfire-prone areas, there are also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/25/936685629/rebuilding-after-a-wildfire-most-states-dont-require-fire-resistant-materials\">few rules about using fire-resistant materials in most states\u003c/a>. Studies show that following wildfire building codes can improve the chances a home will survive a wildfire. California has passed those codes, which means many homeowners rebuilding in Los Angeles will have to meet them. But the majority of other states have not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the conversation to build or not build can be tense, Altadena’s Nic Arnzen says, in light of the devastation his community is recovering from, it’s worth having that conversation, no matter the pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To tell people no is a difficult thing to do because you care about them and they’re your constituents,” Arnzen says. “But you have to buffer their anger with your knowledge. And sometimes you have to, as I’ve done as a parent, you just have to say no and take the beating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the affected landowners pushed back, saying the plan devalued their property and their rights to use it. Those same tensions about where to build housing are playing out around the country, as hurricanes, floods and wildfires get more extreme as the climate gets hotter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building regulation decisions generally fall to local elected officials, who have to balance their constituents’ concerns about land use with the reality of a national housing shortage and growing threat of extreme weather. As a result, few communities around the country have adopted strict development limits to reduce the risk of disasters. Now, as it picks up the pieces after the fires, Altadena will follow those new development rules as it rebuilds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody likes to hear about constraints but at the same time, do we want our neighborhoods to burn down?” says Jennifer Balch, professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. “There are things that we can do and should be doing to mitigate that risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025114\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-800x266.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-1020x339.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-59-1536x510.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The danger of wildfires was well-known to Los Angeles County. California is one of a handful of states that has mapped where the highest risk areas are. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Altadena foreshadows a disaster\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the weeks after the Eaton fire, Nic Arnzen was running on little sleep. He was searching for temporary housing after he and his family lost their Altadena home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was completely gone,” Arnzen says. “I keep telling people the fridge was gone. I don’t understand how a fridge just disappears to dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Arnzen had the whole community to think of. As vice chair of the Altadena Town Council, he and his colleagues were juggling the logistics of a disaster. Already, many residents were vowing to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus needs to be on: what can we plan for now?” Arnzen says. “How can we know the danger we live in now, and try to improve it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena had already been trying to plan for wildfires. Los Angeles County officials had been working on the \u003ca href=\"https://planning.lacounty.gov/long-range-planning/wsgvap/\">West San Gabriel Valley Area Plan\u003c/a>, a plan that would control building decisions through new zoning. (Altadena is an unincorporated area, so planning decisions are made at the county level.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boosting housing is one big focus. Los Angeles is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country and as a whole, the county needs to add more than 90,000 housing units, part of a state requirement. The plan rezones land to allow for higher density of buildings and apartments along Altadena’s central corridors, where there’s already access to transportation and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, properties on the outskirts of Altadena would be zoned for a lower density of housing, particularly areas labeled as “very high” risk of wildfires. That would limit the construction of new homes there, part of a larger county-wide policy to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5256348/los-angeles-fires-safety-evacuation-improvement-preparation\">direct development away\u003c/a> from places that are likely to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fires in Los Angeles County could be the most expensive wildfire disaster in history. \u003ccite>(Ryan Kellman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is the example of why,” Arnzen says, referring to the Eaton Fire. “To make our town safe, we do have to have some supervision. And we hate to dictate to anyone that: no, you can’t develop even though you’ve been waiting forty years to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Plan comes down to a vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In December, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors heard that exact feedback. A group of residents who own property in the foothills \u003ca href=\"https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2024/11/30/alan-zorthian-the-problem-with-the-west-san-gabriel-valley-area-plan/\">registered their opposition\u003c/a> during public comments at a hearing for the development plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, the property is more than just land,” said Altadena resident Joseph DiMassa. “It’s 50+ acres where we imagine buildings, homes for our children, grandchildren, and possibly even future generations. The downzoning of our property from 52 homes to two isn’t just a number, it destroys the dreams we hold for our family’s future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many of the public comments were in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prevailing sentiment in Altadena is one of endorsement,” Victoria Knapp, chair of Altadena Town Council, testified at the meeting. “The plan will direct development away from the Altadena foothills and other high fire zones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time to vote, the county supervisors passed the plan. 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