The Latest

• Updated: Beloved places we’ve lost (LAist)

• The latest on nursing home evacuees, and when they’ll be able to go home (LAist)

• Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park on fire cleanup timeline, investigations and recovery legislation (KCRW)

• Finding burnt pages of books in your yard? Wildfire experts say that’s normal (LA Taco)

  
  

Looking Ahead

• A week after the Palisades and Eaton fires broke out, many evacuees are still in limbo. When will evacuated residents be able to go home? (LAist) 

• LA’s housing market is tenuous and experts fear the fires could exacerbate California’s homelessness crisis (CalMatters)

• California lawmakers are rushing to offer ideas for wildfire response and prevention. Few have offered specifics on how they would work, or how the state could afford them. (CalMatters)

• To many ecologists, economists and other experts on California wildfire risk, the vow to rebuild is part of a familiar cycle as predictable as the Santa Anas: We keep putting homes in the path of the flames. (CalMatters)

• Private firefighters are increasingly popular with insurers. But do they pose a risk? (CalMatters)

• How trustworthy is AQI? What is PM2.5? And at what distance does fire zone adjacency stop mattering? Watch the public information panel and Q&A session hosted by KCRW and R&S Kayne Foundation Los Angeles to get expert information on immediate and long-term health considerations for people returning to homes within the immediate vicinity of the fires and everyone coping with the recovery.

Fact Check

• How to help injured wildlife, as they’ve been displaced, too. Here’s what to do if you come across an injured coyote or bear. (LAist)

• Seven tips from experts at the California Clean Air Coalition on how to minimize your health risks after a wildfire. (LAist)

Resources & Ways to Help

• “You would look [in] any direction, and people needed help … I saw a senior citizen with a kitchen knife cutting a tree down in his yard.” KCRW’s Megan Jamerson shares the stories of immigrant leaders and DIY crews volunteering time to begin the lengthy cleanup process in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire.

• Donate surf (and skate!) gear (boards, wetsuits, fins, trunks) in good condition at Oblivion in Highland Park.

• Teen girls are going to save the world: Altadena Girls was spun up by 14-year-old Avery Colvert to collect makeup, skincare, bras and more for teens who lost everything. (The Guardian)

• Starting Monday, Jan. 20, artists and art workers can apply for emergency relief from a $12M fund started by Getty and other LA arts organizations. (Getty) 

Moment of Zen/Mental Health

• Highland Park theater Vidiots is hosting free movies, as well as space to co-work.  

• We’re feeling the loss of David Lynch hard today. This great remembrance by KCRW’s Arianna Morgenstern celebrates a weird and wonderful Angeleno.

Elsewhere on the Internet

• Architect @byoungdesign explains why design elements (and luck) may have saved some architecturally smart houses in the Palisades. (Instagram)

• The Palisades I loved, Then and Now. A West L.A.-raised photographer looks back at his sacred place in high school, turning his lens on the ruins that remain. (LA Taco)

• The taco trucks that arrived on the scene first to feed firefighters. LA’s always been a taco city. (Eater LA)

• "Fire Weather" author John Vailant explains how Los Angeles can "be a leader in building for the 21st century"