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.