For years, L.A. has been incorrectly reporting which earthquake-vulnerable buildings have been retrofitted and which haven't. L.A. Mayor Bass asked the department to hire an independent auditor & automate their manual work: latimes.com/california/sto…

The plume/smoke column over some of this week's new fires is reaching 16,000 feet, basically acting like a giant chimney & creating erratic, dry winds on the ground. Last August Paul Duginski explained how high mixing heights leads to bigger fires: latimes.com/california/sto…

Did your dog come from the puppy pipeline? latimes.com/california/sto…

The air quality in Big Bear suddenly reached hazardous levels this week. What happened? latimes.com/environment/st…

Where Southern California Edison has shut off power to its customers latimes.com/california/sto…

How ‘urgent’ texts pushed these donors to give thousands of times to political candidates latimes.com/politics/story… by Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee @lamarrlemee.bsky.social

Should we move to b l u e s k y?

I mapped the devastation of the Mountain fire in Camarillo for Los Angeles Times.com. 243 buildings were lost, making it the third most destructive Soutuern California wildfire in at least a decade latimes.com/california/sto… w/ Noah Haggerty

These maps show Palisades fire's rapid spread in first day latimes.com/california/sto…