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After the Los Angeles Wildfires, One Altadena Couple Reveals the Lasting Impacts of Extreme Weather Disasters
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After the Los Angeles Wildfires, One Altadena Couple Reveals the Lasting Impacts of Extreme Weather Disasters

It’s been one year since the L.A. fires. Eaton Fire survivors Katie and Marco Delgado talk about the climate-fueled fires, losing their house, and the challenges they’ve had with insurance.

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Climate change is intensifying wildfires across the United States, transforming what were once routine fire seasons into prolonged, dangerous events that threaten lives and public health during the fires and long after the flames are extinguished. As these fossil-fueled disasters grow more frequent and severe, insurers are scaling back coverage or exiting markets altogether, leaving families increasingly vulnerable.

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In an instant, families and communities across the United States and around the world are seeing their lives, homes, and belongings wiped out by extreme weather disasters. From hurricanes and catastrophic flooding to wildfires and scorching heat waves, extreme weather is only intensifying as fossil fuels continue to drive climate change.

In this series, the Center for American Progress explores how human-caused climate change is fueling these disasters and how these events threaten communities’ safety, economy, health, infrastructure, and future. The series also explores how support for recovery, rebuilding, and resilience is essential in the short term and how transitioning away from fossil fuels is critical to avoiding even more catastrophic impacts in the long term.

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