Overview
- California ordered flags to half-staff as communities held memorials, including a bell tolling 12 times in Pacific Palisades and a 400-person gathering at the destroyed Pasadena Jewish Temple site.
- Survivors and local leaders demanded stronger relief, saying Southern California Edison's offers and some insurers' responses are inadequate, with State Sen. Sasha Renee Perez urging Edison to provide urgent housing aid.
- The Department of Justice lawsuit accusing Edison of poor equipment maintenance in the Eaton Fire remains a key accountability effort, and the utility has acknowledged its gear may have started that blaze.
- Recovery continues to lag: a nonprofit reports about 70% of survivors are still displaced; hundreds of homes are under construction but only a handful are finished, with thousands of permits filed and many still pending.
- Questions persist over cleanup and funding, as researchers found elevated lead at many cleared sites and California leaders press President Trump for tens of billions more in federal aid after receiving only a fraction of requested support.