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ALTADENA, CA - JANUARY 17, 2025 - - A chimney remains standing at a home that was destroyed in the Eaton fire along along E. Mendocino Street in Altadena on January 17, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Editorial: The state lags on fire safety rules, but even common sense should limit combustibles near homes

The state can’t make people protect their homes and neighborhoods better until it makes the government finish writing the rules.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - FEB. 24, 2022. Volunteers walk along Main Street in downtown Los Angeles as they participate in the final night of the Greater Los Angeles Point-In-Time Homeless Count on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. The annual count attempts to provide updated numbers of the city's unhoused to government and social service agencies. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Editorial: Out on the streets to count L.A.’s unhoused, volunteers learn far more than numbers can convey

A stairway is all that's left of a house that burned down from the Palisades Fire on PCH in Malibu.

Editorial: How fast can L.A. get rid of all this debris from the fires?

Altadena, CA - January 21: Eaton fire victim Jose Medina, who's garage that he was living in burned down behind the house, puts out donated children's shoes for fire victims returning to their burned out homes in Altadena Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. His nephew, Jose Velazquez, not pictured, organized the donation. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Editorial: Fires aggravated L.A.’s housing crisis. We need to build homes much faster

Editorial: We’re running out of time to rescue the pets that survived the Palisades fire

Editorial: After the fires, must we get rid of our flammable eucalyptus and palm trees? Maybe not

Editorial: The challenge now is deciding how to rebuild safely in areas destroyed by fire

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