Rebuild:LA Episode 075: The Next Few Months Will Tell Us If The Palisades and Altadena Will Come Back with POLITICO’s Liam Dillon

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The episode discusses the aftermath of California's mega-fires and the challenges of rebuilding in affected communities with investigative reporter Liam Dillon.

Send us Fan Mail The second part of our two-part series with investigative reporter Liam Dillon has us looking forward. Dillon’s stories in the Los Angeles Times and POLITICO have examined the devastation left by the last 8 years of mega-fires in California. Dillon has looked at the Tubbs Fire that laid waste to Santa Rosa, and the Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, among many others. He’s found that only 38% of the Californians who were burned out in the fires have rebuilt their ...

People in this episode

Guest: Liam Dillon

Topics covered

• California wildfires
• rebuilding communities
• investigative journalism
• environmental impact
• disaster recovery

Keywords

• California
• wildfires
• rebuilding
• Liam Dillon
• investigative reporting
• Tubbs Fire
• Camp Fire
• disaster recovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: POLITICO

Places: California, Santa Rosa, Paradise

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