California's homebuilding industry faces a daunting task, and opportunity, in the aftermath of LA's wildfires.
Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...
Experts in fire mitigation and climate science said LA should use the fires as an opportunity to design more resilient ...
Amid the charred rubble of burnt-down homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, you’ll find one Chautauqua ...
Since then, ships have been required to carry sufficient lifeboats for all passengers. Apparently lifeboats and lifeboat drills do not instill panic and fear as more and more people take cruises. The ...
Building experts tell Action News there are roughly 50 ways a fire can burn a house, and eliminating half or more can go a long way to preventing catastrophe.
When the focus in LA turns to rebuilding, it will require difficult conversations about building materials, zoning, home insurance and more.
As California rebuilds from the wildfires, homeowners appear to be looking at alternative ways to build a home, and they are ...
Marialyce Pedersen's house was reduced to ash that spilled into the pool, turning the water a toxic black. A sculpted pink ...
Stucco, a cement material, is a common exterior for Southern California houses and it’s fire-resistant. Emails and videos of ...
The survival of lone homes in wildfire-ravaged areas, such as recent fires in Los Angeles, is not entirely due to chance.
For decades, Los Angeles has had some of the strongest building codes for earthquakes and localized fires, but large-scale ...