Category Archives: Palisades Fire

Great News! PaliHi Yearbooks from 1963 to 2025 Available

Palisades High School Photography teacher Rick Steil announced that reprints of every Pali High yearbook from 1963–2025 are now available to purchase. So many Palisades residents who lost homes also lost personal keepsakes or their children’s keepsakes, such as class … Continue reading

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Continuing to Heal Through “Music Meadow” February 22

  “Music Meadow” featuring live music and student bands from Palisades High School, Crossroad, Windward and New Roads will be featured in Simon Meadow from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 22. This free event, sponsored by Seven Arrows … Continue reading

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PaliHi Reconstruction Project Presented to Community

  A final design meeting for the proposed replacement of Palisades High School Buildings that were destroyed or damaged by the January 2025 Palisades Fire was presented on February 12 to community members. LAUSD Director of Community Relations Lorena Madilla … Continue reading

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Palisades Street Lights Gone: Some Could Return in March

At a joint press conference in Mar Vista, Councilmembers Traci Park (CD 11) and Katy (CD5) Yaroslavsky, announced a plan to bring lighting back to Westside communities affected by copper wire thefts. There are more than 1,100 open streetlight repair … Continue reading

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Wattles a Serious Problem

Wattles are not lumpy bumps on women’s outer thighs. Wattles, in this case is not a description of how ducks get from place to place. Rather, that’s the name given for the green wads of straw trash that seem to … Continue reading

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Court Tentatively Rules Fire Plaintiffs Can Move Forward

  A February 10 hearing (postponed from February 5) was to decide whether victims will ever be allowed to uncover facts through discovery, or whether the case will be cut off before evidence is examined. At the hearing presided over … Continue reading

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AECOM Report Missing in Action

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announced in June that AECOM, a global infrastructure consulting firm, had been selected to put together a long-term rebuilding plan for Pacific Palisades, which had been destroyed in the January 2025 Palisades Fire. AECOM was to … Continue reading

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PaliHi Students Record in John Lennon Bus

In the John Lennon Music Education Bus is a framed 2013 thought from Yoko Ono. WISH TREE Make a wish. Write it down on a piece of paper. Fold it and tie it around a branch of a wish tree. … Continue reading

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Palisades Temporary Library Is Open in Palisades

This editor visited the Palisades Temporary Library on Saturday, February 7 at 861 Alma Real “that has reopened on the ashes” of the former library. The town’s library burned during the 2025 January Palisades Fire. Now, there have been two … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Files a Cross Complaint to Blame State for Palisades Fire

The City of Los Angeles filed a cross-complaint against the State of California on February 5, seeking indemnity and contribution for the fire victims’ claims against the City. A February 10 hearing (postponed from February 5) was to decide whether … Continue reading

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