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

Send us Fan MailThe 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 homes. Now, he’s studying the twin disasters of the Palisades and Eaton Fires. And those numbers aren’t great…yet. Dillon outlines what his investigation has discovered, and whether the rebuilding of Pacific Palisades and Altadena will follow the fires before them, or break the pattern and be the robust recovery we all hope for.Resources:California leaders promised fire recovery in record time. Los Angeles isn’t seeing it.POLITICO22,500 homes lost. Over five years later, only 38% rebuilt: What California fire survivors face - Los Angeles TimesSupport the show