After the Fires: A Limited Podcast Series

Caltech

As the Caltech community grappled with loss and uncertainty after the 2025 Los Angeles fires, researchers jumped into action, collecting data as soon as flames erupted. In this series, find out what they are learning, as they are learning it. Hear from scientists and engineers on Caltech's campus and at JPL who lend their expertise and answer questions from the local community.

Episodes

  1. Resiliency and Rebuilding

    APR 11

    Resiliency and Rebuilding

    In this limited series, find out what Caltech scientists on campus and at JPL are learning, as they’re learning it.   In this episode, “the Earthquake Lady” Lucy Jones shares how lessons about disaster response and recovery learned from decades as a seismologist apply to the 2025 fires. Hear Jones’s insights into how communities confront events like these and remain resilient.   This episode was produced by the Caltech Office of Strategic Communications and Caltech Academic Media Technologies.  Learn more at scienceexchange.caltech.edu.     Referenced in episode:   View lead data from Caltech professor Francois Tissot’s lab at scienceexchange.caltech.edu/lead.   Fill out the emergency alert survey at https://www.scsn.org.   Clips used:   “L.A.'s rock star seismologist heads off to retirement,” March 30, 2016  CBS Evening News  “Caltech seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones — aka "The Earthquake Lady" — was in the middle of a news conference about Friday's 5.1 temblor,” March 29, 2014  KTLA 5 News  “Dr. Lucy Jones discusses 4.4 quake, biggest to hit LA in 3 years,” August 29, 2018  ABC7   “Volunteer efforts underway for Eaton Fire victims,” January 10, 2025  NBC4LA  “Altadena Church that survived Eaton Fire helping community heal,” February 12, 2025  FOX11 Los Angeles  “Eaton Fire collaborative introduced,” March 19, 2025  KTLA 5 News  Produced by Alyce Torrice/Caltech Office of Communications and External Relations © California Institute of Technology, 2025

    15 min

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As the Caltech community grappled with loss and uncertainty after the 2025 Los Angeles fires, researchers jumped into action, collecting data as soon as flames erupted. In this series, find out what they are learning, as they are learning it. Hear from scientists and engineers on Caltech's campus and at JPL who lend their expertise and answer questions from the local community.