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This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last. on Jan 14, 2025. Advertisement ...
On a hill above Altadena named Little Round Top, a grave stood for 136 years as the community below it blossomed. Here lay the remains of Owen Brown, son of the legendary abolitionist John Brown ...
Federal, state and local officials continued to tout the massive cleanup of Eaton and Palisades fire debris as the fastest ...
Families dropped by insurance struggle after losing homes in California fires 03:39. The Eaton Fire that tore through Altadena, California, turned the home of Jeff and Jennifer Cohen into a shell ...
Fires happened in the hills, not in lower Altadena. When Conley jostled him awake at 3 a.m., 90 minutes before his alarm was set to go off for work, and told him she and his sister were evacuating ...
Technology Wasn't Responsible for Altadena, CA, Wildfire Alert Failures, Company Says March 6, 2025 All 17 deaths happened in the area that did not get evacuation alerts until after the fire had ...
California single mother who lost everything in wildfires hails Altadena's 'tenacity' and 'spirit' Brenda King describes losing everything in the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles County.
The late Altadena resident Owen Brown was famed abolitionist John Brown's son. Like his father, he also participated in the Harpers Ferry raid. Later, the younger Brown settled in Los Angeles.
Despite the fact that Altadena sits within a wildland-urban interface — the area where housing development pushes up against the fire-prone hills — Altadena’s affected neighborhoods do not ...
Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last. As they rebuild, residents of the middle-class enclave could face steep price hikes.