Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?

San Francisco - Earthquake & fire, 1906 "Ruins on Kearney St. near Post Office". Library of Congress. At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents were awakened by a 40-second tremor that ...

No better way to put it. Here we are, with nature and circumstance teamed up for a natural disaster that has left Los Angeles sagging, flattened like an old party balloon, the breath sucker ...