2025 California Fire Storm

Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS
President Genethia Hudley Hayes is the latest to step down from the Los Angeles Fire Department Board of Fire Commissioners. Here is a file photo of a Los Angeles Board of Fire Commissioners meeting in August 2018.
Four of five LA Fire Department oversight commissioners are resigning amid criticism over their handling of the Palisades fire, raising questions about civilian oversight and ...
March 19, 2026
Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS
Los Angeles firefighter Scott Pike said 'I didn't even want to use my gloved hand because it was hot, so I just kicked it with my boot to kind of expose it,' in his testimony last week. 'There was like red hot like coals that was still smoldering, and I even heard crackling.'
Feb. 27, 2026
Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times/TNS
Funds donated for training and equipment for Los Angeles firefighters were used to hire a celebrity public relations firm.
Jan. 22, 2026
Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG
The litigation from Southern California Edison contends residents in east Altadena received their first emergency alert about 30 minutes after the fire began at 6:18 p.m., while residents in the west side of Altadena were not notified to evacuate until 3:25 a.m.
Jan. 18, 2026
Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS
Only a few houses in Palisades have been replaced.
Jan. 14, 2026
Report: Los Angeles Fire Apparatus, Ambulance Fleet Declined Over Past Year
Jan. 9, 2026
Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS
Los Angeles Fire Chief Jaime Moore
Jan. 8, 2026
Post-Palisades Fire report edited to lesson criticism of LAFD
Jan. 7, 2026
Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS
Firefighters were surrounded by raging flames in Palisades on Jan. 7, 2025.
Jan. 7, 2026

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