NBC Bay Area14d
Man finds engagement ring in rubble of California home and immediately proposes
Brian McShea and Stephanie Raynor rummaged through the debris of where their Altadena home once stood to see what they could salvage from the destructive Eaton Fire. While Raynor looked for any ...
Los Angeles Times17d
Against all odds, Black residents built something remarkable in Altadena. Then the fire came
They were “some of the first hardworking Black families who were able to buy property in California and ... That was the village,” said Brian, who called Altadena “a large town, with a ...
Hosted on MSN18d
Aerial view of damage in California's Altadena as Eaton Fire gets mostly contained
showed the extent of damage and devastation in the city of Altadena, California, which bore the brunt of the Eaton Fire. From the air, the once-thriving neighbourhoods wiped out by recent ...
Afro20d
Ben Crump and NAACP sue Southern California Electric for Altadena residents who lost property in Eaton fire
As ashes are still settling over parts of Altadena, California, victims of the Eaton wildfire have started filing lawsuits in the wake of the unprecedented blaze that destroyed more than 7,000 ...
Pasadena Star-News21d
First came the firefight. Now comes the battle for Altadena’s future
They are themes that run through the veins of Altadena’s history ... which included suspending California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review. Newsom also announced that five major financial ...
CNN22d
For historically Black Altadena, the combined wildfire loss of generational wealth and personal heirlooms is indescribable
The wildfires raging in Los Angeles have scorched an area larger than the size of Paris and two are already the most destructive in Southern California ... s remains in his Altadena home.
USA Today23d
A legacy destroyed: Altadena's Black residents fear neighborhood's soul may never return
As embers wafted overhead against a reddening sky, Adonis and Denise Jones grabbed a few belongings and left their house last week in Altadena, California, figuring firefighters battling the Eaton ...
CNN23d
New insurance rules mean homeowners throughout California are likely to pay more after fires
A recent rule change could cause insurance premiums to spike for homeowners across California ... % and 26% in the 91001 and 91103 zip codes in Altadena, another community hard hit by a separate ...
KTLA23d
Fundraiser list helping wildfire victims in historically Black Altadena
Black families began settling in Altadena during the Great Migration in the 1930s. Black homeowners didn’t obtain mortgages until the 1960s, when California’s Rumford Fair Housing Act of 1963 ...
The New Yorker24d
Will L.A.’s Fires Permanently Disperse the Black Families of Altadena?
The first member of the Benn family to settle in Altadena, California, was Charles Benn, who had grown up outside of Atlanta and served in the Korean War. In the late nineteen-fifties, Charles was ...
Los Angeles Times24d
The destruction of Altadena reverberates across Black Los Angeles
“I said to myself, ‘You’ll probably be all right.’ ... We’re in America.” “What us Pasadenans and Altadenans are about is doing what we need to do for one another.” “We’re not ...