March 9, 2025 3 AM PT

For weeks after the Eaton fire ravaged her Altadena home, Ivana Lin lived in a constant, overwhelming state of fight or flight.

Her body was tense. She barely slept.

At one point, she jotted down a to-do list of everything she felt pressure to get done in one day — including itemizing her lost belongings for her insurer, applying for financial assistance and figuring out child care for her 4-year-old son whose preschool burned.

The list had 50 tasks.

“The stress keeps you up at night,” said Lin, 38, who had lived with her husband in Altadena since 2017. “You feel like you’re never done. ... We wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning. Do as much as we can. Fall asleep around midnight.”

Chris Russo, who had closed escrow on a house in Pacific Palisades one day before the Palisades fire burned it down, said it has “been a full-time job to manage how to recover from this disaster.”

Russo, who had lived in West Hollywood for 24 years, thought she had found her paradise: a single-wide trailer in the Tahitian Terrace mobile home park across the street from Will Rogers State Beach.

“Honestly, it was magical,” she said. “Now, I have to pivot.”

A new poll of registered voters in Los Angeles County by the UC Berkeley Institute of Government Studies, and co-sponsored by the Times, found that the Jan. 7 fires had an enormous emotional toll on victims, who reported extreme levels of stress and dramatic changes in their day-to-day activities.

Asked to rank on a scale of one to 10 the level of additional stress the fires added to their lives, 84% of respondents in the Palisades fire zone and 77% in the Eaton fire zone gave the highest rankings, between eight and 10.

Significant portions of L.A. County residents outside the impacted areas were deeply impacted as well. Nearly a third reported high stress levels and 40% reported moderate stress.

Mark DiCamillo, director of the Berkeley IGS Poll, said for those in the affected areas, the tragedy “is probably going to be with them for many years whereas the rest of the county will move on and try to regain their lives.”

Residents in the burn areas were more likely than those outside it to be longtime residents to own their homes, and to be more satisfied with the quality of life in Greater Los Angeles.

Ninety-four percent of residents in the Eaton fire zone and 92% in the Palisades fire zone said they had lived in L.A. County for 11 or more years.

The survey found that the vast majority of residents in the burn areas expressed satisfaction with their neighborhoods. Yet roughly 40% have thought about leaving because of the fires — significantly more than county residents outside the burn areas.

People in the fire zones were “established residents of their communities,” DiCamillo said. “They’ve been there a long time. They tend to own their homes. They’re not a transient community. But they’ve had this tremendous disruption to their lives.”

“There’s kind of an interesting dichotomy,” he added. “They like L.A. more, but they’re more likely to be considering moving. It’s unfortunate.”

Lin, a poll respondent, said that although she and her husband plan to rebuild in Altadena and have been actively talking with architects, they did give some thought to leaving because the process of putting their lives back together has been so daunting.

“Even if people are like, ‘I really love Altadena,’ you have to really consider if you want to rebuild,” she said. “For me and many others, the fear was that this is going to take forever and we should leave. I don’t want to wait 10 years. And some people don’t have 10 years.”

Just after the fire, she and her son stayed with her in-laws in Dana Point, and her husband stayed with friends in Pasadena, closer to his workplace. With their family scattered and home gone, her son had “a cry I’ve never heard before — just so much anguish.”

They hurriedly rented an apartment in Pasadena in order to get their boy resettled as quickly as possible.

Lin has lived primarily in L.A. County since she and her family emigrated from Brazil when she was 12. She and her husband bought their home on Loma Alta Drive in 2017, the year they got married. The house was a total loss.

The poll indicated that 74% of respondents in the Eaton fire zone had structural damage to their homes or other properties owned by their immediate families. Among those who reported damage, nearly half said the structures were a total loss.

In the Palisades fire zone, 64% of respondents had structural damage to their homes or other properties. Among those, just over half experienced total losses.

Bradley Adams and his wife, Ester Song, also lost their Altadena home near Chaney Trail, at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains foothills.

After feeling deeply connected to Altadena, Adams said they have been unmoored for the last two months — staying occasionally with family in Long Beach, spending a few nights in Joshua Tree with their two excitable Husky mixes.

Adams, 34, said he has seriously considered leaving L.A. County because of the trauma of losing the house, which they bought in 2020. He avoids looking at photos of their prefire life — joyful scenes of cooking in the kitchen, playing games at the table, working in the garden.

“Throughout all of this, I want to be happy more than anything, and being in L.A. County right now is not making me happy,” he said. “We were so rooted in Altadena. We want to get rooted again. But we don’t want to put life on hold.”

Song, 36, said they plan to keep their Altadena property and rebuild a home on it — but that she liked the idea of being just outside the area, perhaps in a neighboring county, for the time being.

The couple own a small, downtown Los Angeles-based business, Road Runner bags, that makes bicycle bags and accessories. They lost a fleet of bicycles that they used to promote their products and worry about keeping their business afloat.

In the Eaton fire zone, according to the poll, 20% of residents were self-employed. Among those, 51% had damage to their business. In the Palisades fire zone, 36% were self-employed. Of those, 45% had damage to their business.

The poll showed that residents inside the fire zone supported increasing funding for city and county fire departments — even if it meant higher taxes — at a higher level than other county residents.

In the Palisades fire zone, 83% of respondents supported greater funding, as did 76% living in the Eaton fire zone. Outside the impacted areas, support fell to 64%.

The poll asked if insurance companies should be allowed to increase their rates for fire insurance if it enables them to offer coverage for everyone. That would include those in high-risk zones where homeowners have been dropped by their providers in recent years.

In the Palisades fire zone, 66% of respondents supported higher fees and broader coverage, as did 56% of respondents in the Eaton fire zone. Outside those areas, just 38% supported that choice.

Russo, a post-production supervisor and documentary filmmaker, said she was covered by the California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, and “severely underinsured.”

Russo said she has “a lot of confidence that the village of the Palisades will come back strong and beautiful,” though “it’s not going to be quick.”

She would like to see the mobile home park be rebuilt and actually get to move into her home, which was destroyed before she even received the key.

Russo, originally from New York, said she was “not in love with L.A., but I found this beautiful community and fell in love with the Palisades.”

But she said she needs to leave L.A. County, at least for now. She is planning to visit her mother in Florida and spend some time with friends on Cape Cod.

“I need a bit of a reset,” she said. “I need a different ocean view for a while. I need a place to heal.”

The Berkeley IGS poll was conducted online in English and Spanish from Feb. 17-26.

It surveyed 5,184 registered voters in Los Angeles County. The total included over-samples of 272 registered voters living in the Palisades fire zone and 293 registered voters living in the Eaton fire zone. The margin of error may be imprecise; however, the survey’s estimated margin of error for L.A. County voters is 2 percentage points, and the estimated margin of error for people living in the burn zones is 4 percentage points.

The Los Angeles Rams and wide receiver Cooper Kupp will soon go their separate directions. The veteran wide receiver sounded off on his pending trade.

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The Los Angeles Rams and wide receiver Cooper Kupp are set to part ways this offseason. Kupp's production and contract have put the Rams in a challenging position, as they are set to pay Kupp handsomely this season.

The veteran wide receiver was one of the team's most productive players during his eight seasons in Los Angeles. He has gone from one of the main pieces of a potent Rams offense to an afterthought seemingly overnight, as his Triple Crown season was not long ago.

Kupp noted that he does not want to leave Los Angeles and was even willing to renegotiate his contract in order to do so. However, Rams head coach Sean McVay made it clear the team planned to go in a different direction altogether, and part ways with Kupp.

“I asked if there were any other thoughts on ways to move forward, were there any other options to figure things out, and he said, ‘No, this is the way they wanted to go,'” Kupp said.

After receiving confirmation from McVay that there would be no reconciliation between them, Kupp made peace with the decision. Ever the professional, Kupp was determined not to let his time with the Rams end negatively after all they had been through together.

The question now is whether the relationship can be saved ahead of free agency's start this week. Kupp has been one of the Rams' top footsoldiers during the entire McVay era. He has been a pillar of the organization, a face of the offense, and a key piece of their DNA.

It now appears, though, that the two sides are beyond the reality of saving their working relationship. The NFL is a business, and even Kupp can't be saved from the hard truths that come with it.

Kupp's situation is a part of life in the National Football League, as many well-known but high-priced players have been traded or cut from their respective teams. It happens every offseason as stars age, their production declines, and teams move on.

Still, it is understandably difficult for a player to play for one team for nearly a decade, have the success Kupp and the Rams had together, and abruptly told things are ending.

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Residents of parts of Los Angeles County felt a minor earthquake centered west of Malibu, Calif., on Sunday afternoon. Preliminary estimates showed that the quake had a magnitude of 4.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Within five minutes of the initial impact, aftershocks of magnitude 2.5, 3.0 and 2.8 rumbled in the area, the agency said.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Los Angeles Fire Department said the earthquake was not strong enough to have triggered an official earthquake response.

Still, many residents felt the mild shaking, even if they themselves were hardly rattled.

Alan Delarosa, 47, a manager at Geoffrey’s Malibu, an open-air restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was in an office when the quake occurred, shortly after 1 p.m. “I basically felt the room rocking back and forth,” he said.

The disturbance lasted about three seconds, he said. Once it was over, Mr. Delarosa rushed to check on his staff and guests, some of whom felt it. He was worried the gas line could have broken. But his kitchen staff didn’t even register the movement. The gas line was safe. There was no broken glass.

Amelia Goudzwaard, 23, had just arrived at Malibu Fitness when the earthquake hit. “I thought it could have been someone dropping weights,” she said. But the sustained shaking made her realize what was happening.

“The whole building was moving,” she said. But “it wasn’t so severe I thought — ‘Oh no, this could be the Big One.’”

The temblor struck during what experts say could be a period of increased seismic activity in the state, after decades of relative quiet. But its occurrence does not signal that a larger, catastrophic quake is any more likely.

Seismologists have long warned that an earthquake of that scale, the likes of which California has not experienced since 1906, could happen at any time. They have urged residents to prepare as much as possible by assembling emergency supplies and practicing “drop, cover and hold on” exercises with their children.

It has been three decades since a significant quake struck California.

The Loma Prieta earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.9, shook the Santa Cruz Mountains in 1989, leaving 63 people dead and more than 3,700 people injured.

A magnitude 6.7 quake in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1994 left 60 people dead, about 7,000 injured and more than 40,000 buildings damaged. The catastrophe also revealed a major defect in some steel-frame buildings, including many high rises, which under extreme shaking could collapse.

Ms. Gouzwaard, who was born and raised in Malibu, said she lost her house in 2018 during the Woolsey fire, which burned in the Santa Monica Mountains, and she is more sensitive these days to natural events affecting Southern California, particularly after floods and fire the past couple of years.

“I am starting to realize this is my new normal,” she said.

Jill Cowan and Thomas Fuller contributed reporting.

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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake centered north of Malibu sent light and weak shaking across Southern California on Sunday.

The strongest shaking was felt in parts of Malibu, Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks and Camarillo, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The strongest shaking was considered “light” as defined by the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale — enough to rattle dishes and windows and feel like a truck has struck a building.

Weak shaking may have been felt across a wider swath of the Southland, including downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Gabriel Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, Simi Valley, Oxnard and Ventura.

The earthquake hit on Sunday at 1:03 p.m. It was followed by a magnitude 2.5 jolt a minute later, and magnitude 3 and magnitude 2.8 aftershocks at 1:07 p.m.

There were no immediate reports of damage.

According to the USGS, the light quake was felt across the region, from south Goleta to Huntington Beach.

The epicenter was in the Santa Monica Mountains, about three miles northwest of El Matador State Beach and 3.5 miles northeast of Leo Carrillo State Beach. The epicenter was seven miles southwest of Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village.

In Westlake Village, people felt a roll and shake over about five seconds. Residents in Reseda felt a steady shake. In Redondo Beach, the shaking felt like a long rumble; in Windsor Hills, the quake felt like a long, slow roll. Someone in Torrance felt two jolts, and near Los Angeles International Airport, the earthquake felt like a brief sway.

One person in downtown L.A. described a long but gentle shake.

An official at L.A. County Fire Station 88 on Malibu Road said no reports of damage had come in, adding “the guys here didn’t even feel it.” An official at Fire Station 99 on Pacific Coast Highway said it was felt but the station got no reports about damage.

Southern California has been experiencing a number of moderate earthquakes since 2024. For all of 2024, Southern California had experienced 15 seismic sequences with at least one magnitude 4 or higher earthquake, according to the count of seismologist Lucy Jones, a Caltech research associate. That’s the highest annual total in the last 65 years, surpassing the 13 seen in 1988.

Sunday’s earthquake was the first magnitude 4 jolt for Southern California so far in 2025, Jones said Sunday.

Experts have cautioned for months that the latest quakes don’t provide any additional clarity on the timing of Southern California’s next devastating earthquake. “Seismologists have spent decades trying to read the tea leaves to look for patterns. The seismic network was installed in Southern California 100 years ago because scientists thought that small earthquakes would show patterns before the big earthquakes happened. And that just didn’t work out,” Susan Hough, seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, said a few months ago.

Jasmine Mendez contributed to this report.