Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. UC registered nurses ratify contract that guarantees a minimum 18.5% increase in pay Rosemarie Bower, a registered nurse, prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at UC Irvine Medical Center in 2020. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . University of California registered nurses won a new contract with a minimum 18.5% increase in pay covering 25,000 workers across 19 facilities through 2029.

What it's like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert) Mike Rothschild has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he found himself mired in similarly sticky webs of misinformation. On a gloomy Saturday morning this past May, a few months after entire blocks of Altadena, California, were destroyed by wildfires, several dozen survivors met at a local church to vent their built-up frustration, anger, blame, and anguish. As I sat there listening to one horror story after another, I almost felt sorry for the very polite consultants who were being paid to sit there, and who couldn't do a thing about what they were hearing. Hosted by a third-party arbiter at the behest of Los Angeles County, the gathering was a listening session in which survivors could "share their experiences with emergency alerts and evacuations" for a report on how the response to the Eaton Fire months earlier had succeeded and failed. It didn't take long to see just how much failure there had been. After a small fire started in the bone-dry brush of Pasadena's Eaton Canyon early in the evening of Tuesday, January 7, 2025, the raging Santa Ana winds blew its embers into nearby Altadena, the historically Black and middle-class town just to the north. By Wednesday morning, much of it was burning.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. 'No smoking gun': Why Eaton fire report didn't name names or assign blame A resident tries to defend his home from nearby flames during the Eaton fire in Altadena. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . A $2-million county report examined botched Eaton fire evacuation alerts but stopped short of naming officials or assigning individual blame.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. L.A. County outlines multiple breakdowns that prevented timely evacuations during deadly Eaton fire This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . The long-awaited report investigating how county officials failed to order timely evacuations for west Altadena as the Eaton fire threatened the community did not assign blame for the botched alerts, instead chalking the issue up to a night of chaos, unprecedented conditions and poor communication. The 132-page report released Thursday seemed to downplay how early the fire threatened west Altadena -- despite 911 calls that reported flames and smoke in the area -- and only once mentioned the 19 people who died in the fire, of which all but one were found in the town's western side.

Jeffrey and Cheryll Ku shared a video recorded on their Ring doorbell showing the terrifying moment the Eaton Fire approached their home. Altadena residents Jeffrey and Cheryll Ku shared harrowing footage of their Jan. The Kus are among Los Angeles residents forced to flee from the wildfires that tore through the city. On social media, the Kus described the experience as "34 minutes of pure terror." "The Eaton fire had just started in the hillside above us and we had to act FAST," Jeffrey Ku wrote in an Instagram post.