Category Archives: Palisades Fire

Thoroughly Remediated, Calvary School Reopens September 2

Calvary School, with students in preschool through eighth grade will start the school year on Tuesday, September 2. The campus, located at 701 Palisades Drive, has been cleaned, remediated and scrubbed and painted from top to bottom click here. Head … Continue reading

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Post Office–Forwarded Mail Address Needs to be Renewed

After the Palisades Fire, the entire Pacific Palisades Community was declared an evacuation Zone, and off-limits to residents. Nearly 7,000 structures, homes and businesses were destroyed. Although the Palisades Post Office was left standing, no one was allowed into the … Continue reading

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Renter’s Insurance Faced Displaced Palisadians (And More Insurance)

Yesterday, CTN ran a musing about a woman who had trouble finding renter’s insurance for her 85-year-old mother, whose Palisades home had been destroyed. When this editor moved to an apartment building in Marina Del Ray a week after the … Continue reading

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Evacuation into Darkness

(Editor’s note: At last week’s Hive, a 28-year-Palisades resident spoke about her evacuation on January 7.) We live in the Highlands and were home during the fire, which broke out at 10:30 a.m. We didn’t evacuate immediately because the reports … Continue reading

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Altadena Works on Hiking Trails, Pacific Palisades Sleeps

Hiking trails were badly damaged in the City and State parks surrounding Pacific Palisades.  The fires destroyed the vegetation, burning everything to the ground, and then the February rains, after the fire moved dirt and sediment, leaving trails unusable. The … Continue reading

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After Action Report Held at the Request of U.S. Attorney’s Office

After a press conference at Simon Meadow on August 14 to announce a new facility, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was asked about the status of the after-action report for the Palisades Fire on January 7. Bass was told that many … Continue reading

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Back Home in the Palisades

(Reader Diane Reagan wrote this on August 16 and has given Circling the News permission to publish it with a photo of her quilt.) I was one of the lucky ones whose home survived the fires. I completed the move … Continue reading

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Sears Department Building Becomes PaliHi South 2025

By HENRY KAMER Just shy of 3,000 Palisades Charter High students returned to school today, August 13, at the Sears Department Store Building. Instead of flooding through the quad, students flooded into four floors and the parking lot at the … Continue reading

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Speaking Truth about the Palisades Fire Needed

  (Editor’s note: As I listened to AECOM’s presentation, the company hired by the City to help the Palisades rebuild, I was struck by the fact they will offer all sorts of advice about evacuation and rebuilding—but yet, no one … Continue reading

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People Purchased Pali Flags, Money Will Go for Trees

The Palisades Fire destroyed nearly 7,000 structures but not counted were the numerous trees that burned -or were chopped down after the fire. To kickstart the planting of new trees, a $18,000 check was handed to the Palisades Forestry committee … Continue reading

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