Category Archives: Palisades Fire

Palisades Forestry Committee Recommends Trees

As people start the rebuild process, and yet others delay, the one area of agreement after the Palisades Fire devastated the community was trees. Even as the purple blossoms of the Jacarada trees line Radcliffe Avenue five months after the … Continue reading

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Tour Buses Take Gawkers Through Pacific Palisades

Michel de Montaigne wrote “We feel a kind of bittersweet prickling of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortune of others.” Four hundred years later, nothing has changed. Tour buses were spotted driving people through Pacific Palisades on Saturday.  A resident … Continue reading

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Palisades Post Office Boxes: Additonal Mailing Information

Two readers supplied valuable information about Postal Boxes and Mailing Information. POSTAL BOXES IN PALISADES: Long-time resident Gil Dembo reached out to Post Office about gaining access to a postal box that many residents in Pacific Palisades used before the … Continue reading

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How to get a FireAid Grant: You Deserve It

The more than $100 million raised for FireAid Survivors did not go to individuals, it went to nonprofits. Individuals will not receive funds. Experts in philanthropy working through the Anneberg and Clippers organization, have said donations are going to nonprofits. … Continue reading

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LETTER: Fire Suppression Is More Important than Zero Zone

(Editor’s note: Hagop Tchakerian, a long-time resident and president of the Palisades Rotary Club, posted this in the comment section of Circling the News. This editor thought it was valuable and received permission to reprint it as a letter.)   … Continue reading

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Mission Accomplished: Colonel Swenson Will Leave SoCal July 3

Colonel Eric Swenson was assigned to Southern California in January to head the Army Corps of Engineers’ mission to cean the debris of homes and businesses destroyed by the Palisades and Eton Fires. Nearly 12,000 homes and businesses were destroyed … Continue reading

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Zone Zero Recommendations Based on Faulty Experiments

A webinar “California’s Focus on Wildlife Preparedness,” was hosted by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin on June 12. California State Fire Marshall Daniel Berlant focused on Zone Zero. (click here.) Zone Zero is considered the first five feet from a structure and … Continue reading

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Pacific Palisades Réservoir, aka Chautauqua Reservoir, Drained June 2024

When news reports highlighted the fact that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been drained and was not available to help fight the Palisades Fire, many residents wondered why the Chautauqua Reservoir had not been used. Before the Highlands community was … Continue reading

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The Getty Hosts Conservation Clinic

So many people affected by the Palisades Fire, had little remaining. What was dug out of the ash, was encased in soot and barely recognizeable. A collaboration between the Los Angeles County Departments of Arts and Culture, Getty, and Art … Continue reading

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One Can Rebuild a Home Designed by a Top Architect at Reduced Cost

What would you say if you could live in a community that existed of homes designed by national and international top architects? Think of the beauty . . .think of the resale value. But, most likely you would say it … Continue reading

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