Altadena
‘Everything I knew burned down around me’: A journalist looks back on LA’s fires
Jacob Soboroff was raised in the Pacific Palisades and reported live from the area as it was devastated by fire in 2025. In Firestorm, Soboroff offers a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe.
Hours before the Eaton fire, distribution lines failed and fire started in Altadena
Transmission lines have been linked to the start of the Eaton fire in January. But another kind of line — distribution lines that power homes — were also wreaking havoc before that fire sparked.
