On a hot, dry November morning in 1961, flames from a trash pile on brushland north of Mulholland Drive were picked up by Santa Ana winds and swept across the canyons of one of Los Angeles’ wealthiest ...
There’s a perception that the houses that burned in L.A.’s fires were mansions. But in the city of Altadena, where the Eaton Fire devastated neighborhoods, many of the people who lost homes weren’t ...
The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homes lie in ruins on Somera Road in Bel-Air in February 1962, three months after the Bel-Air fire destroyed 484 homes. (Frank ...
In response, L.A. officials ushered in new fire safety measures, investing in more firefighting helicopters, new fire stations and a new reservoir. They also outlawed untreated wood shingles in ...
L.A.'s sloping suburbs came to embody not just the city's ambition but its folly. Many hillside homes were built with combustible wood shingle roofs. They were crowded together, next to flammable ...
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