Power outages have left some first responders in the dark, but community members and organizations are stepping up to help. In an Instagram post, the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team (@altadenamountainrescue) thanked Tesla for its Cybertruck donation.

Now harmful chemicals, which may include asbestos, lead, mercury and other heavy metals, are present in the ash that blankets the burn zones. That’s a health hazard for everyone, but especially residents sifting through wreckage without proper protective gear.

One of the biggest cleanup challenges from the Southern California fires is lithium-ion batteries, which can explode after damage or exposure to heat. The batteries are found in electric vehicles, which abounded in some burned neighborhoods, including Pacific Palisades.

INSURANCE PAYOUT: Insurance companies have already paid out $4.2 billion in claims related to the Palisades and Eaton fires, according to California’s Insurance Department. That covers only payments intended for immediate assistance, like rental housing, and not yet the cost of debris removal and rebuilding.

Newly released body camera video shows how Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies searched a senior care facility in Altadena, California, and rescued a 100-year-old woman as the Eaton Fire raged outside.

Nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire forced Claire Robinson to flee her Altadena home, she returned, donning a white hazmat suit, a respirator and goggles.

What authorities described as one of the largest lithium-ion battery cleanups ever is underway in Los Angeles County neighborhoods destroyed by the Eaton and Palisades fires.

City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll rebuild.

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

While TV commentators are wagging their fingers at the fossil fuel industry, Taylor Sheridan has provided a different point of view with Landman.

John Clarke Mills, the man behind the wildfire alert app that kept millions of Angelenos informed, was presented an award by Steve Guttenberg, who was also active in helping during the Palisades fire.

Give Trump some credit. He has no interest in faking empathy, as Biden did so ineptly. In Trump’s playbook, empathy is a weakness, even amid tragedy. Instead, each disaster is an opportunity to go on the attack,