In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes were aflame.

Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.

Rebuilding after recent fires brings challenges, opportunities, and a vision for a stronger, more sustainable future You can’t write a story about how long it’s gonna take to rebuild from the Palisades Fire without comparing it to the Woolsey Fire.

The Los Angeles-area wildfires are exposing California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

Reconstructing fire-ravaged neighborhoods in their former image could make residents sitting ducks for future blazes, experts say.

To be sure, there is also a special concern for Malibu’s fragile land and marine environment of “unaltered natural resources and rural characteristics,” a description from the preface of the city’s Municipal Code, which calls upon its citizens to protect and preserve these features.

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.  LOS ANGELES (AP) — When disaster strikes,

The L.A. fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

Twenty-eight people have died across the Los Angeles area. Officials have said the true death toll isn’t known as the fires continue to burn.

As the deadly LA wildfires and other major emergencies have shown, alerts rely on a complicated chain of communication between first responders, government administrators, third-party companies and the public. Sometimes, the chain breaks.

With the Southern California wildfires finally winding down, Woman’s World sits down with Woolsey survivor Tracey Bregman to talk about what comes next for those who’ve lost seemingly everything, and how we can support our loved ones.