It wasn’t the images of flames ripping through neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades and Altadena this month that really triggered Jordan Hocker’s anxiety. It was the flood of social media posts about ...
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 ...
Hocker lived on Maui when wildfires destroyed as many as 4,000 housing units in August 2023, leveling the town of Lahaina.