Three Blue Spotlights Merge in the Sky over Caruso’s Palisades Village

Residents of Pacific Palisades gathered on January 7, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles fires with a moment of remembrance. At 6:30 p.m. prayers were led first by St. Monica Monsignor Lloyd Torgerson and then Rabbi Zushi…

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The Palisades Fire: the Little Things Led to an Inferno

  (Editor’s note this is part of a piece from “Exponential Causality,” which Jimmy Dunne is working. You can read Dunne’s work on his substack click here. )   By JIMMY DUNNE The smolder no one killed, and the sheep…

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Facts about Santa Ynez Reservoir Ignored

The Santa Ynez Reservoir, which holds 117 million gallons of water on 9.2 acres, was originally constructed following the Bel Air Fires as source for fighting wildfires. It was designed to allow aerial firefighting helicopters to “dip” their snorkels directly…

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Help for People Experiencing Loss after the Deadly Palisades Fire

Experts have written about people’s emotional journey they go through when suffering a painful loss or life altering event: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Those who have lost everything in the Palisades and Eaton Fires are being offered a…

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Videos Showed No One Fought the Fire. . . .Do We Rebuild . . .What’s the Upside?

(Editor’s note: I received two videos from a Huntington resident  John Moreland with the note, “I have lived on Toyopa for 40 years. I took this first video on 1-7-25 starting at 7:13 p.m. I started at my home and…

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“They Let Us Burn” Rally Attracted Thousands

“Palisades residents were failed at every level – local, state and federal. This wasn’t one mistake or one agency. It was a systemic collapse that left an entire community exposed, unprotected and unable to recover.”           …

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January 7th Commemoration of Victims, the Deceased and Dreams Lost

A White Glove Remembrance and Tribute observance of the people killed in the January 7 Palisades Fire was held at the Ronald Reagan American Legion Post 283 Hall in Pacific Palisades. The January 7 ceremony  was a solemn remembrance of…

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Rededication of the Town of Pacific Palisades Sunday

The birthplace of Pacific Palisades is located at Founders Oak Island on Haverford Avenue. The Founders met there on January 18, 1922 to dedicate the town. The Pacific Palisades Historical Society will over a rededication at 2 p.m. at that…

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The Day of the Palisades Fire:  My Story

(Editor’s note: Haldis Toppel lived in the Marquez Knolls area and sent this note with her Christmas Card. She has graciously allowed CTN to print it. The video taken of January 8, the day after the fire was sent by…

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LOOKY HERE: City Council Wants to Recognize Palisades Residents

The Los Angeles City Council wants to make it up to residents who lost their homes, businesses and all of their possessions at 10 a.m. on January 9 at City Hall, Room 340, 200 N. Spring Street. Please RSVP using…

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