After the wildfires ravaged homes in Los Angeles, California, cleanup crews faced a new challenge: electric car batteries ...

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New data suggests there were faults on Southern California Edison’s transmission lines early on Jan. 7 before the fire started that evening. For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his ...

Eight of the 10 largest wildfires in California history have occurred in the last five years. Note: The Rush fire burned 271,911 acres in CA, and 43,666 in NV.

Conduit Re said it expects the California wildfires will cost the company itself between $100m and $140m ... is also considered to be one of the costliest insured disasters in history. Conduit Re was ...

Although FEMA has funded and conducted soil sampling at some of California’s biggest wildfires over the past two decades, the federal agency changed its approach in 2020, Brandi Richard Thompson ...

Editor’s Note: After publishing this story, The Bee learned that it includes unattributed passages from the San Francisco Chronicle story “Park Fire arson suspect arrested. Here’s what we ...

an Oregon State University professor who studies wildfire impacts on buildings and public infrastructure. Between 1990 and 2020, nearly 45% of the homes built in California have broken ground in ...

Related Articles Paradise reconstruction to take 20 years, mayor tells California ... of possible encampment fires and their share of the total have risen unevenly. In 2020, the department saw ...

More than 12,300 structures across Los Angeles have been destroyed, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. But while the January fires rank as the most destructive ...

There are the now-normal raging wildfires in the coastal and Sierra foothills. And they will be greeted as if they are not characteristic threats of 500 years of settled history, but leveraged as ...

California wildfire legislation and regulatory rulings ... Edison's $800 million equity raise in May 2020 at $56 per share was well below our fair value estimate but was necessary to support ...