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David Wharton

Los Angeles

Part of the LA Times New Format team and still following the Olympics. You can reach me at: [email protected]

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  • Can fire-gutted suburbs rebuild safer? Here's what the experts say

    2 months ago | latimes.com | David Wharton |Lorena Iñiguez Elebee

    The wildfires that devastated Southern California, reducing entire neighborhoods to checkerboards of ash, have left behind tough questions about how to rebuild in this land of dry brush and wind. The answers might involve more than just new homes made of flame-resistant materials. Altadena and Pacific Palisades — essentially reduced to blank slates — have a chance to reimagine themselves in a fundamentally safer way, experts who study wildfire behavior say.

  • Finding the cremated remains of loved ones in homes destroyed by wildfire

    Mar 4, 2025 | latimes.com | David Wharton

    Finding the cremated remains of loved ones in homes destroyed by wildfireVolunteer archaeologists working with the Alta Heritage Foundation use specially trained dogs to help locate where urns once held the ashes of people who had been cremated.

  • Lost in a sea of ash: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one's urn — the search begins

    Mar 4, 2025 | latimes.com | David Wharton

    Aunt Cecelia’s ashes used to be over there, in a wooden box on the shelf. Her niece steps gingerly across the charred rubble of this house that used to be and points to the exact spot. “So this was the end of the wall,” Angel Baltazar says. “The box was set right here.”A small clump of ashes buried in a sea of ash. Baltazar begins to cry as she talks about caring for her sick aunt and the thought of losing the cremated remains to a wildfire that swept through this Altadena neighborhood in January.

  • L.A. 2028 Olympics organizers say they are making significant fundraising progress

    Feb 27, 2025 | latimes.com | David Wharton

    Los Angeles organizers preparing for the 2028 Olympics say they are on track to make significant fundraising progress this year after lagging behind their goals. Organizers of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles say they are on track to reach about $2 billion in secured corporate sponsorships by year’s end, moving them significantly closer to the $2.5 billion needed to help pay for the costly sporting event.

  • Think you’re a good driver? Take this test

    Feb 11, 2025 | latimes.com | David Wharton

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26 Mar 25

VIDEO Searching for a clump of ashes — a favorite aunt’s burned-up urn — in a sea of ashes. How archeologists find cremated remains in wildfire ruins. @SpecNews1SoCal https://t.co/5mCzfl3I2J