According to a UCLA study, Black residents in Altadena were more likely to have their homes damaged or destroyed by the Eaton ...

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of ...

Learning from Silence," a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025?

Octavia Butler ... acres in Altadena and parts of northeast Pasadena, reduced hundreds of homes to ash, and killed at least 16 people. It is one of the deadliest fires in California history.

Thirty-four years after that conflagration turned his life upside down, Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed ... As they conversed, a poster for Octavia Butler’s novel ...

Altadena homeowners have sued Southern California Edison Corp., claiming the utility’s equipment ignited the devastating ...

The lawsuit highlights Southern California Edison's failure to address increasing wildfire risks in Los Angeles County. Since 2016, nearly 300,000 acres have burned in 98 separate fires. As of January ...

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Tens of thousands of California residents were forced to flee ... charred more than 14,000 acres in Altadena. The Hughes Fire burned more than 10,000 acres in the Castaic area.