Grace Toohey is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering breaking news for the Fast Break Desk. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, she covered criminal justice issues at the Orlando Sentinel and the Advocate in Baton Rouge. Toohey is a Maryland native and proud Terp.
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The son of 100-year-old Jean Bruce Poole, who was left behind at an Altadena senior home during Eaton fire evacuations, said the facility failed his mother.
After a relatively weak storm expected to arrive in L.A. late Thursday, forecasters say a potentially more powerful storm could hit around Valentine’s Day.
State legislators are calling to extend Cal Fire’s staffing to a year-round system, switching some roles from nine-month positions.
A Ventura County lawmaker is proposing new wildfire resilience standards that would require water providers to ensure full tanks and backup power.
With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the Eaton fire’s rapid progress.
Here’s the latest forecast for an upcoming winter storm that forecasters hope could finally lift Los Angeles County from the throes of a devastating fire season.
It could rain for many hours each day in the middle of next week as the edge of one of these storms takes a swing into Southern California, forecasters say.
County firefighters poured into Pacific Palisades to assist the city. But it’s unclear how many were near Altadena when the Eaton fire began there.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies found two elderly women still at a west Altadena senior home hours after the Eaton fire threatened the area and well after evacuations had been ordered.
Malachi Luis Garcia survived two nights in the freezing San Gabriel Mountains after losing track of his friends while snowboarding at Mountain High Resort.