Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the ... You focus your gaze elsewhere. The Santa Monica mountains reveal their crowns as the marine layer lifts.

Firefighters battling the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, January 2025 (Source ... The largest of the fires, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking ...

After flames leveled nearly 500 homes in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had a reckoning ... and dispatched more crews to the Santa Monica Mountains. To accommodate growth in Pacific ...