LA fire survivors are set to lose case managers as standoff between California and FEMA drags on

Summary by The Los Angeles Editorial Desk · Byline on the source page: Gabriela Aoun Angueira | The Associated Press, as published by LAist (KPCC / Southern California Public Radio) · October 16, 2026 · 1 min read

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Veda Ashby Romero, left, a disaster case manager for CORE, poses for a portrait with Mary Landau, a fire survivor, at the CORE resource center on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, in Altadena. (Jill Connelly / AP Photo) Throughout the arduous process to rebuild the Altadena home where she lived for nearly...

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