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Community Journalists Chronicle Black Altadena’s Recovery 14 Months After the Eaton Fire

KQED spotlights community journalists who have sustained coverage of survivors’ long recovery more than a year after the blaze.

Overview

  • KBLA host James Farr continues a weekly call-in program, Conversations Live: Altadena Rising, to center fire survivors’ voices.
  • AfroLA maintains long-term, solutions-focused reporting on Altadena’s recovery, staying with residents through a slow rebuilding process.
  • The coverage focuses on historically Black neighborhoods that the fire disproportionately damaged, home to many elders and multigenerational families.
  • Reporters Corrinne Ruff and William Jenkins highlight residents’ trajectories, including Black architects working to rebuild their community.
  • Survivors describe moving from initial shock to difficult choices about displacement and whether or how to reconstruct their homes.