and to raise his national profile. (Mr. Nagin’s reputation, like Mr. Giuliani’s, also faded with time.) At a recent press briefing about the fires in Los Angeles, eight city and county ...

The largest fire, covering 23,448 acres in western Los Angeles, is 90% contained ... near the edge of the Angeles National Forest. Two of the dead, a man and his son, who had cerebral palsy ...

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have ...

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ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did ...

“Parable of the Sower” was written in 1993 and set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles ravaged by fire in the 2020s. Butler died in 2006. The Altadena cemetery in which she is buried did catch f ...