Category Archives: Accidents/Fires

For more than 30 years, this editor and her husband have paid State Farm Insurance for coverage for the house and possessions. Possession replacement was listed as $800,000. We paid the amount State Farm requested so that if there was...

After the Palisades Fire, people find they are underinsured, are not being paid for claims, or are having trouble receiving insurance money for smoke damage. The Palisades Recovery Coalition hosted an insurance townhall on August 24 to address problems and...

Insufficient evacuation routes and often no warning for residents of the approaching flames during the Eaton and Palisades Fires. Thirty-one people were killed.  Read the list below and a common factor emerges. ALTADENA Oswald Altmetz, 75 Carolyn Burns, 56 Edwin...

The City of Los Angeles has a 48-page booklet “Brush Fire” Hazard Specific Annex. The booklet goes into detail about the city emergency operations plan if there is a brush fire. It starts with an explanation of brush fires. “Due...

For many who would like to rebuild after the Palisades/Eaton Fires, insurance companies are holding up the process. One insurance company in particular, State Farm, seems to be causing a hardship to people who paid premiums for years. The company...

(A special thank you to ALERTCalifornia/UC SanDiego and Caitlin Sully for providing video of the Palisades Fires from various cameras situated in the Santa Monica Mountains. In this video, you’ll see the first plume of smoke appear at 10:24 a.m....