L.A. County wildfire resources

Support and information for L.A. County residents dealing with the effects of wildfire:

    L.A. is alive with possibility

    L.A. is alive with possibility

    L.A. is alive with possibility

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    Living infrastructure is an invitation to honor place, grow participation, embody justice, foster resilience, and regenerate life.

    What’s inside the Living Infrastructure Field Kit?

    What’s inside the Living
    Infrastructure Field Kit?

    The Field Kit includes a free co-design tool and learning resources to help communities envision, plan, and apply for funding for multi-benefit projects.

    A sample Field Kit sketch shows opportunities for cooling, food, and recreation within a selected project site.
    Honor Place
    Grow Participation
    Embody Justice

    Find out what your community needs

    Select sites

    Find and compare potential project locations, guided by localized datasets and community input. Use this information to identify and prioritize areas that have faced historical disinvestment or inequities due to past infrastructure projects.

    Map pin with pencil

    Gather observations

    Work inclusively to annotate firsthand accounts of current conditions, community perspectives, and site visits to ground-truth opportunities and needs.

    Check understanding

    Use shared observations, localized data, and educational resources to strengthen understanding of the unique qualities of local places, cultures, and ecosystems before beginning to design.

    A sample Field Kit sketch shows opportunities for cooling, food, and recreation within a selected project site.
    Honor Place
    Grow Participation
    Embody Justice

    Find out what your community needs

    Select sites

    Find and compare potential project locations, guided by localized datasets and community input. Use this information to identify and prioritize areas that have faced historical disinvestment or inequities due to past infrastructure projects.

    Map pin with pencil

    Gather observations

    Work inclusively to annotate firsthand accounts of current conditions, community perspectives, and site visits to ground-truth opportunities and needs.

    Check understanding

    Use shared observations, localized data, and educational resources to strengthen understanding of the unique qualities of local places, cultures, and ecosystems before beginning to design.

    A sample Field Kit sketch shows opportunities for cooling, food, and recreation within a selected project site.
    Honor Place
    Grow Participation
    Embody Justice

    Find out what your community needs

    Select sites

    Find and compare potential project locations, guided by localized datasets and community input. Use this information to identify and prioritize areas that have faced historical disinvestment or inequities due to past infrastructure projects.

    Map pin with pencil

    Gather observations

    Work inclusively to annotate firsthand accounts of current conditions, community perspectives, and site visits to ground-truth opportunities and needs.

    Check understanding

    Use shared observations, localized data, and educational resources to strengthen understanding of the unique qualities of local places, cultures, and ecosystems before beginning to design.

    Foster Resilience
    Regenerate Life

    Co-design for long-term thriving

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    Explore multi-benefit remedies

    Access a library of over 40 living infrastructure remedies and related educational resources. Work with your community to choose and integrate remedies into your project design to address needs such as cooling, food access, and flood safety.

    Illustrated icon of paper and pencil

    Plan for long-term care and resilience

    Create projects that can adapt to changing conditions. Develop estimated care and creation costs for funding applications to promote ongoing maintenance and stewardship.

     A project sketch set to prioritize cooling, food, and recreation reveals corresponding remedies suggested by the Field Kit, including a fruit tree, bike share station, and vegetable garden.
    Foster Resilience
    Regenerate Life

    Co-design for long-term thriving

    Flower illustrated icon

    Explore multi-benefit remedies

    Access a library of over 40 living infrastructure remedies and related educational resources. Work with your community to choose and integrate remedies into your project design to address needs such as cooling, food access, and flood safety.

    Illustrated icon of paper and pencil

    Plan for long-term care and resilience

    Create projects that can adapt to changing conditions. Develop estimated care and creation costs for funding applications to promote ongoing maintenance and stewardship.

     A project sketch set to prioritize cooling, food, and recreation reveals corresponding remedies suggested by the Field Kit, including a fruit tree, bike share station, and vegetable garden.
    Foster Resilience
    Regenerate Life

    Co-design for long-term thriving

    Flower illustrated icon

    Explore multi-benefit remedies

    Access a library of over 40 living infrastructure remedies and related educational resources. Work with your community to choose and integrate remedies into your project design to address needs such as cooling, food access, and flood safety.

    Illustrated icon of paper and pencil

    Plan for long-term care and resilience

    Create projects that can adapt to changing conditions. Develop estimated care and creation costs for funding applications to promote ongoing maintenance and stewardship.

     A project sketch set to prioritize cooling, food, and recreation reveals corresponding remedies suggested by the Field Kit, including a fruit tree, bike share station, and vegetable garden.
    PROJECT TYPES
    PROJECT TYPES

    What kinds of projects does the Field Kit support?

    What kinds of
    projects does the
    Field Kit support?

    What kinds of projects does the
    Field Kit support?

    The Field Kit is for people who want their places to thrive. It guides individuals and project teams at all experience levels, including communities, agencies, and schools, in designing projects and securing funds to benefit their places. Here are some of the projects the Field Kit supports.

    An asphalt schoolyard overlaid with colorful illustrations of trees, rainwater tanks, a native plant garden, and children playing in a shaded playground.

    Schoolyards

    Use the Field Kit to improve outdoor spaces for learning and play. Integrate the learning resources to enliven your curriculum.

    An asphalt schoolyard overlaid with colorful illustrations of trees, rainwater tanks, a native plant garden, and children playing in a shaded playground.

    Schoolyards

    Use the Field Kit to improve outdoor spaces for learning and play. Integrate the learning resources to enliven your curriculum.

    An asphalt schoolyard overlaid with colorful illustrations of trees, rainwater tanks, a native plant garden, and children playing in a shaded playground.

    Schoolyards

    Use the Field Kit to improve outdoor spaces for learning and play. Integrate the learning resources to enliven your curriculum.

    Ready to start co-designing?

    Ready to start
    co-designing?

    The Living Infrastructure Field Kit fosters a collaborative approach to project design. It is freely available in L.A. County.

    A map of Los Angeles County scattered with illustrations of living infrastructure projects. A colorful, animated flock of birds soars out from behind the search bar.
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    A map of Los Angeles County scattered with illustrations of living infrastructure projects. A colorful, animated flock of birds soars out from behind the search bar.
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    A map of Los Angeles County scattered with illustrations of living infrastructure projects. A colorful, animated flock of birds soars out from behind the search bar.
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    More learning resources

    Dive deeper into the world of living infrastructure with a library of educational resources, from blog articles to videos.

    More learning resources

    Dive deeper into the world of living infrastructure with a library of educational resources, from blog articles to videos.

    More learning resources

    Dive deeper into the world of living infrastructure with a library of educational resources, from blog articles to videos.

    More learning resources

    Dive deeper into the world of living infrastructure with a library of educational resources, from blog articles to videos.