Lawyers representing victims of a deadly Hawaii wildfire reached a last-minute deal averting a trial that was scheduled to ...
Hocker lived on Maui when wildfires destroyed as many as 4,000 housing units in August 2023, leveling the town of Lahaina.
And since only 18% of Altadena’s roughly 42,700 residents are Black, that makes the impact disproportionate on an already dwindling Black community there, said Lorrie Frasure, director of UCLA’s Ralph ...