{"id":48020,"date":"2025-07-08T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48020\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:45:14","slug":"survivors-struggling-6-months-after-jan-2025-los-angeles-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48020\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors struggling 6 months after Jan. 2025 Los Angeles wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/generic-web-main-19.jpg\" alt=\"Survivors struggling 6 months after LA wildfires\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-44b63364=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif.<\/strong> &#8211; Communities devastated by this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/weather\/wildfires\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles fires<\/a> held &#8220;block walks&#8221; Monday to reflect on the six-month mark since the deadly fires.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;It just increases my resolve when I\u2019m here for something like this,&#8221; said Jenny Weigle-Bonds in Pacific Palisades. &#8220;Whenever I walk the block, [it motivates me] to help us come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Block walks took place in Altadena and Pacific Palisades Monday evening, six months after the fires occurred on January 7.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;I\u2019m just looking at where I lived and how special it was and how special this place is,&#8221; said Weigle-Bonds. &#8220;I\u2019ve been pretty emotional all day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Six months later, nearly 80 percent of destroyed homes in Pacific Palisades have had their lots cleared. While construction has started on a handful, others still sit appearing almost untouched.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;We\u2019re all still going to be going through our own trauma, even as we rebuild the Palisades,&#8221; said Weigle-Bonds.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Two communities bound together by tragedy, using the six-month mark as a time to meet with old neighbors, looking at the months ahead with hope.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;When we do come back, we\u2019re going to be such a strong, tight-knit community,&#8221; said Weigle-Bonds.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/weather\/wildfires\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildfires<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/los-angeles\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/los-angeles\/altadena\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Altadena<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/la-los-angeles-county\/pacific-palisades\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific Palisades<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/malibu\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malibu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/pasadena\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pasadena<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. &#8211; Communities devastated by this year\u2019s Los Angeles fires held &#8220;block walks&#8221; Monday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[21053,1582,276,2961,26074,224,6080,5337,29168,50,6278,5338,68,313,5609],"class_list":{"0":"post-48020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-altadena","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-los-angeles-county","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-malibu","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-pacific-palisades","19":"tag-pasadena","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-weather","22":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114816268652121525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}