Search
- * Fact or B.S.
- Accidents/Fires
- Alerts
- Animals/Pets
- Arts
- BID–Business Improvement District
- Books
- businesses/stores
- City
- City Councilmember Park
- City Councilmember Traci Park
- City/Councilman Mike Bonin
- Community
- Councilman Mike Bonin
- County Supervisors
- Crime/Police
- Education
- Environmental
- Fashion
- Film/Television
- FireAid
- Fourth of July
- General
- Geology/Dinosaurs/Earth
- Health
- Highlands Eldercare Project
- History
- Holidays
- Homelessness
- Kids/Parenting
- L.A. County Supervisors
- Letters
- Music
- News
- Obituaries
- Pacific Palisades Community Council
- Palisades Fire
- Parks
- Pot-Shot
- Real Estate
- Restaurants
- Reviews
- Schools
- Seniors
- Sports
- Traci Park
- Vickrey
- Viewpoint
- What is it?
Category Archives: Palisades Fire
Brush Clearance at PCH and Temescal: Rotary Corner
Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) collaborates extensively with national, state, and county agencies on wildfire prevention. This past week, a supervisor for the National Wildfire Prevention unit was at the corner of Temescal Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway on … Continue reading
Posted in Palisades Fire
1 Comment
ACE Clears Last Lot: Officials Absent
The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) cleared the last residential property for both the Palisades and Eaton Fires, on Tramonto in the Castellammare section of Pacific Palisades today. Nolan West, who was 93 in July, spoke about his home on … Continue reading
Insurance Informational Meeting Hosted by PRC
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Accidents/Fires, Palisades Fire
3 Comments
Viewpoint: Are There Housing Shortages in Los Angeles?
One can’t listen to a radio or television program or pick up a newspaper without the dire warnings that California is facing a severe housing shortage. People such as your editor repeated this mantra, without thinking. Who would lie about … Continue reading
Posted in Palisades Fire, Viewpoint
9 Comments
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
Posted in Palisades Fire, Schools
3 Comments
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
Posted in Palisades Fire
1 Comment
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
Posted in Palisades Fire
1 Comment
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
Posted in Palisades Fire
3 Comments
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
Posted in Palisades Fire, Parks
9 Comments
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
Posted in Palisades Fire
7 Comments