Category Archives: Accidents/Fires

Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Gives $3.2 Million for Wildfire Prevention

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

  The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy announced on May 13 that it has awarded $3.2 million in State funds to Los Angeles County and Ventura County Fire Departments to implement wildfire prevention programs. The grants, unanimously approved by the Conservancy...

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Foreshadowing of the Palisades Fire

Posted on May 19, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Trying to pare old emails from my inbox, this editor came across an email I received on December 20, 2024, from a reader. The resident wrote: “The explosions occurred last night for five minutes, beginning at 1:41 a.m. This was...

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PPCC Meeting to Discuss Zone 0 Defensible Regulations

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

The Pacific Palisades Community Council will hold a Zoom special meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 5, to discuss Governor Gavin Newsom’s simplistic approach to dealing with wildfires. (Pacipalicc.org) David Barrett of MySafeLA will present. Governor Gavin Newsom issued...

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Insurance Continues to Rule Conversations

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

While the rest of Los Angeles goes on about its business mostly forgetting there was ever a Palisades or Eaton Fire that killed 28 people and wiped out nearly 16,000 structures, fire victims are not so lucky and deal with...

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The Woolsey Fire Was the Warning, but Failure to Act on Lessons Learned Made Palisades Pay the Price

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: this story first appeared in the Westside Current on April 17 and is reprinted with permission.) By JAMIE PAIGE Woolsey Fire (2018): A Catastrophe Exposes Systemic Gaps When the Woolsey Fire ignited on November 8, 2018, it quickly...

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Corps Are Vital to the Rebuild and – They Recycle

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

The Army Corps of Engineers work seven days a week.  This editor visited with Colonel Brian Sawser, who is in charge of the Palisades operations, on March 23, a Sunday, and he was still working at 7 p.m. A few...

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Posted in Accidents/Fires, Palisades Fire | 11 Comments

Black Soot Water Fills the Santa Monica Canyon Flood Control Channel

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

There is an expression “speaking out of both sides of your mouth.” That was in evidence at the February 13, Pacific Palisades Community Council with Vahid Khorsand (Board of Public Works Director), Julie Allen (Assistant Director of LASAN), Ted Allen...

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 A Month Since the Palisades Fire: Examining City’s Initial Response

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Even though there had been prior fires in the past two months in the Highlands area of Pacific Palisades and severe Santa Ana was predicted on January 6, it appears no prevention was in place and the reaction time to...

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Posted in Accidents/Fires, Palisades Fire | 8 Comments

Private versus County Preparing for Possible Mud Slides

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Residents in one area of the Pacific Palisades Highlands are not waiting for the County and City to “save” them from possible mudslides. Of the 87 properties in this Highlands enclave, Palisades County Estates, 11 burned during the Palisades Fire....

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Officials Offer Aid and Try to Appease Those Who Lost Homes

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

By LAUREL BUSBY Contributing Writer   Hundreds of suffering residents of Pacific Palisades and other communities affected by the Palisades Fire convened on Thursday with officials from the LAPD, city, county, and state fire departments, FEMA, and state and federal...

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