And since only 18% of Altadena’s roughly 42,700 residents are Black, that makes the impact disproportionate on an already ...

That was especially true of West Altadena, an area that got an evacuation order many hours after the Eaton fire exploded last month. According to a UCLA study published earlier this week ...

In the week after the fire broke out, she heard that mainstays in Altadena's network of Black-owned businesses — a barber shop, a book store, a nail salon — may have been burned, too.

A drive through the charred neighborhoods around Altadena shows that the fires burned through a remarkable haven for generations of Black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices elsewhere.

The Eaton Fire tore through the community of Altadena. The city has long been a sanctuary for Black people, who make up about 18-percent of its population. The losses from the fire are felt deeply in ...

According to Pastor George Hurtt, most of New Revelation’s parishioners live in Altadena. The city is home to a historic Black population whose ancestors fled the Jim Crow system of racial segregation ...

Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution ... study of the Marshall Fire in the Boulder, Colorado, area showed that bad air hung around inside homes even after the smoke had cleared.

Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution, which is at levels ... sore throat and watery eyes even six months after the 2021 fire. Those who lived closer to burned-out buildings ...