Wildfires

One Altadena family whose home was destroyed by the Eaton Fire is amazed that bins containing childhood artworks and other precious memories survived. Tracey Leong reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

An Altadena family that lost everything to the Eaton Fire discovered that precious keepsakes from their adult children’s childhoods managed to survive the devastating blaze.

Los Angeles County launched a website that tracks how many rebuild permits have been issued in Pacific Palisades and Altadena following January’s fires.

Altadena residents who are trying to rebuild following the devastating Eaton Fire say they’re still seeing opportunistic thieves loot fire-affected homes and the community.

Southern California Edison started work this week to prepare an idle power transmission line for removal from the area where the deadly Eaton Fire started and rapidly spread in a powerful windstorm in January. The prep work and removal are further steps in the investigation to determine how the second-most destructive wildfire on record in California started in San Gabriel…

Southern California Edison started work this week to prepare an idle power transmission line in Eaton Canyon for removal. Video broadcast Wednesday April 23, 2025 on the NBC4 News at 11 a.m.

Enormous C-130 military planes will soar over Angeles National Forest this week in a training exercise for military pilots learning to fly the modified aircraft in steep terrain to fight wildfires. The behemoth four-engine turboprop military transport planes equipped to fight fires are part of a training class for personnel at Channel Islands Air National Guard (ANG) Station in Port…

Students whose school was damaged in the Palisades Fire start classes in a renovated Santa Monica Sears building. Brittany Hope reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

For the first time since the fire, more than 2,500 students and staff will be back together in person at their new temporary home. 

An Eaton Fire victim who lost everything to the blaze credits one local nonprofit dedicated to helping older residents for helping her as she gets back on her feet.

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles accuse the major home insurers of colluding to limit coverage in high-risk areas across California.

Older adults impacted by the Eaton Fire are getting the help they need thanks to one local nonprofit. Camilla Rambaldi reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 21, 2025.

The 102-year-old Community United Methodist Church of Pacific Palisades was one of several structures that perished in the blaze.

There are hundreds of people still displaced and living far from their neighborhood for decades.

The City of Pasadena Parks, Recreation and Community Services department is closing baseball infields at two parks after LA County health officials revealed elevated lead levels in soil from the Eaton Fire, the city said Friday.

It has been 100 days since the Eaton Fire and the rebuilding process continues. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on April 17, 2025. 

The cause of the Eaton Fire is still under investigation but a local advocacy group says they have clear evidence that Southern California Edison’s faulty infrastructure is to blame. Macy Jenkins reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 17, 2025.

April 17 marks 100 days since the start of the LA wildfires and Mayor Karen Bass says the city is on track for the fastest wildfire recovery in state history.

A hundred days after the Palisades Fire, LA Mayor Karen Bass said the city is on track for the fastest wildfire recovery in state history. Karma Dickerson reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said over the weekend that crews have been working around the clock to target a late May reopening of the burn-zone section of Pacific Coast Highway on the Los Angeles County coast.  The update came as business owners in most of Malibu are trying to get the word out — they’re already open. The doors are open…