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Friday, November 28, 2008

A fully opened St. John cathedral

National | November 28, 2008
The Cathedral Church of St. Read more
 

A family becomes collateral damage from the Sylmar wildfire

California | Local | By Scott Gold | November 28, 2008
In one bedroom, there is still a stack of hand-written flashcards on the windowsill, where one of the twins left them: Anomalous. Read more
 

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Water pumps failed in fire, officials say

California | Local | By Tony Barboza | November 26, 2008
Water officials said Tuesday that pumps designed to push water to the upper reaches of a hillside Yorba Linda neighborhood failed during a Nov. Read more
 

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Teams bring help and a prayer

California | Local | By Duke Helf | November 25, 2008
When they respond to disasters, chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team usually encounter throngs of desperate victims. Read more
 

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Is climate change to blame for string of Southland fires?

California | Local | By Bettina Boxall | November 18, 2008
Is climate change to blame for the string of destructive fires that have hit Southern California in recent years? Read more
 

Southland fire victims get plenty of help

California | Local | By Kate Linthicum | November 18, 2008
Lisa Bialac-Jehle was just a few minutes from sleep Friday night when her phone rang. Read more
 

For a golden-years couple, a silver lining

California | Local | By Tami Abdollah | November 18, 2008
Marion Thornton, 89, and her husband, Austin, 91, are one of the original 15 families who moved into Oakridge Mobile Home Park 29 years ago. Read more
 

Boy, 16, charged with arson in July fire near Goleta

California | Local | By Tami Abdollah | November 18, 2008
Officials announced the arrest of a 16-year-old boy on arson charges Monday in relation to a Santa Barbara County fire that destroyed 9,544 acres and four outbuildings near Goleta in July. Read more
 

The small spark of a disaster

California | Local | By Joe Mozingo and Tony Barboza, Tami Abdollah | November 18, 2008
The Haroutounians set off for their home on Big Horn Mountain Way confident it had survived the firestorm. Read more
 

Insurers likely to weather firestorm

California | Local | By David Pierson | November 18, 2008
Once again, thousands of Southern Californians reeling from days of destructive wildfires have been forced to exercise the home insurance policies they hoped they would never have to use. Read more
 

Monday, November 17, 2008

Gov. calls for review of standards

California | Local | By Ari B. Bloomekatz and Rong-Gong Lin II | November 17, 2008
Gov. Read more
 

Police warn of another potential peril: looting

California | Local | By Molly Hennessy-Fiske | November 17, 2008
As news of weekend wildfire evacuations spread in the Southland, thieves took note. Read more
 

Olinda Village puts up a fight for its homes

California | Local | By Joe Mozingo | November 17, 2008
Helen MacDougal and her daughter started up the road on foot Sunday, as wisps of blue-gray smoke wandered the blackened landscape like errant ghosts. Read more
 

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Stories of devastation, survival

California | Local | By Catherine Saillant | November 16, 2008
Jack and Jan Milton shared a bench Saturday overlooking the smoldering remains of their three-bedroom home with its million-dollar views in the hilly Sycamore Canyon area of Montecito. Read more
 

Power failure brings Sylmar hospital to standstill

California | Local | By Andrew Blankstein and Seema Mehta | November 16, 2008
Although flames had chewed through the power lines that serve the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, staff members thought that they would be fine. Read more
 

Catastrophic fires blaze a path of destruction through Southland

California | Local | By Sberg and Louis Sahagun Mike Anton Mitchell L | November 16, 2008
In a swiftly moving catastrophe that seemed as familiar as it was shocking, Southern California once again was engulfed in flame Saturday, from Orange County to Santa Barbara, with hundreds of homes consumed by three major wind-driven fires, including one of the most devastating blazes ever to strike the city of Los Angeles. Read more
 

Sylmar blaze pulls the plug on 115,000

California | Local | By Alex and Ra Zavis | November 16, 2008
More than 115,000 residences and businesses in widely scattered parts of Los Angeles lost power Saturday when the Sylmar fire damaged the main transmission network bringing electricity into the city, water and power officials said. Read more
 

Once burned, twice as hard to leave

California | Local | By Bettina Boxall | November 16, 2008
This time, Nazia Shah and her family didn’t leave their big house on Longacre Avenue. Read more
 

Paradise is lost for Oakridge residents

California | Local | By Jason Song and Louis Sahagun James Wagner | November 16, 2008
Prepare yourselves for the worst,” Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Read more
 

Chaos erupts from pair of blazes

California | Local | By My-Thuan Tran and Mike Anton, Christopher Goffard | November 16, 2008
Their neighborhood was deserted. Read more
 
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