The Palisades Fire Recovery Field Manual

One year later, thousands of families are still navigating demolition, remediation, and rebuilding, most of them without a playbook. 

This manual is the playbook.
135 pages covering what to test, what to ask, who to call, and how to protect your family through every phase of recovery. It was written by a neighbor who lost everything and spent the last year finding the answers nobody was handing out.

What’s inside: environmental safety and soil testing, reading lab reports, remediation standards, indoor air quality, pediatric health guidance, school re-entry questions, mental health resources, financial recovery, contractor safety, and printable worksheets to track all of it.

Print it. Share it. Write in it. Keep it next to your lab reports and insurance files.
Free to download. Free to share.

Prepared by Jeremy Wineberg — Pacific Palisades resident, author of the 120-page Palisades Fire Investigation Report February 2026

No agency ever released a complete record of what happened.

So I did.

This is an independently compiled public report documenting the

January 1, 2025 - January 7, 2025 Palisades Fire.