Stately palm trees, lining neighborhoods, are a defining emblem of Los Angeles. The two trees are among the most notorious of non-native plants that are highly flammable. In a fire they can go up ...

Hardening structures against fire ... trees were throwing off large chunks of flaming fronds. Nicole told me she studied hours of TV news coverage of the fires and noticed that in the Palisades ...

L.A. must balance fire resilience with ecological preservation by gradually replacing flammable non-native plants like eucalyptus and palm trees with native and fire-resistant species while rethinking ...