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Disaster by Design: How California Quietly Stripped Mobile Home Owners of Their Rights After Wildfire

By any honest measure, what happened to mobile home owners after the November 2018 Woolsey Fire was not an accident. It was a foreseeable outcome, and the legislative record proves it. Earlier

March 5, 2026

FireWire·Investigations·News

LADWP Chief Resigns as Court Ruling Exposes Utility to Billions in Liability Over Palisades Fire

A major legal setback for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has been followed almost immediately by a leadership shakeup at the top of the agency, raising new questions

March 4, 2026

FireWire·News·Palisades Fire·Politics

LAFD Chief Drops Bombshell: Palisades Fire Report Doctored to Shield Incompetent Leadership Under Bass and Newsom’s Watch

In a stunning admission that confirms what fire-ravaged communities have suspected all along, Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore acknowledged this week that the official after-action report on the catastrophic Palisades

January 9, 2026

FireWire·News·Palisades Fire·Politics

Palisades Fire Rebuilds on Track to Take 9-16 Years to Complete – Malibu Rebuilding Ambassador Exposes City Hall Derailing Fire Victims

The removal of Abe Roy, the Malibu’s Rebuild Ambassador after the Palisades fire, has become a flashpoint that exposes the deeper dysfunction and political maneuvering obstructing recovery. The announcement blindsided residents and

October 1, 2025

FireWire·News·Politics

Using Crisis as a Career Opportunity: Former Embattled Malibu City Manager Resurfaces in Yet Another Fire Related Scandal

They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but Malibu knows better. In just seven years, another wildfire scorched through the region, this time gutting areas that had barely escaped the wrath of Woolsey.

July 24, 2025

FireWire·News·Politics

Public and Private Wildfire Detection Strategies Increase as Early Fire Season Begins in SoCal

Although Southern California suffered through massive flooding throughout much of the winter thanks to an active El Nino weather pattern, the soaked hillsides did not do much to thwart the beginning of

June 21, 2024

FireWire·News

Malibu’s First Taste of Wildfire Season Was a Potential Recipe For Disaster (Again)

Last Thursday afternoon, wildfire worries became a reality when the Santa Ana season officially swung into action. With a single wind shift, not one, but two potential wildfire threats to our area

October 16, 2019

FireWire·News·Woolsey Fire

The Local Malibu Exposes Judicial Misconduct and Potential Corruption in Woolsey Fire Litigation

by Erik Cooper When Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William F. Highberger disqualified law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP from representation of any victims of the Woolsey Fire, The

August 24, 2019

FireWire·News·Woolsey Fire

Rush to Justice? Woolsey Fire Victims Rushed Through Judicial System

By Erik Cooper No one who has ever suffered a loss wishes to extend their suffering from that loss any longer than absolutely necessary. While the wheels of justice sometimes turn painfully

July 14, 2019

FireWire·Woolsey Fire

Disqualified: Law Firm Prohibited From Representing Woolsey Fire Victims

By Erik Cooper Victims of the Woolsey Fire can no longer rely upon the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP for legal representation of damages suffered from the Woolsey

June 2, 2019

FireWire·News