Full coverage: Rolling Hills Estates landslide damages homes, forces evacuations
The Rolling Hills Estates City Council has declared a local state of emergency in the wake of Saturday’s landslide that sent multiple hillside houses on a slow-motion downward slide, collapsing roofs and cracking walls along the way.
Officials still don’t know what caused the clear-day landslide, which has forced the evacuation of 17 homes, many now completely lost. At least 16 people have been displaced, as the land has continued to shift for days, officials said.
Although this landslide came as a shock to residents, the Palos Verdes Peninsula is known to be prone to such movement.
Not far from Peartree Lane, where the homes slid along the hillside, a slow-moving slide, triggered in 1956, continues to shift land in the Portuguese Bend area. In the late 1990s, another landslide collapsed a hilltop office park in Rolling Hills Estates.
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From the late 1970s to early 1980s, officials monitored the development of Rolling Hills Park Villas, where a landslide has since ruined at least eight homes.
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Questions mount in the wake of the land movement in Rolling Hills Estates, a city that many residents assumed was safe from such disasters.
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Two people were arrested Thursday morning in Rolling Hills Estates after deputies say they attempted to burglarize evacuated homes, then tried to escape into the landslide area.
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Five more homes on Peartree Lane in Rolling Hills Estates have been evacuated after a sewer line broke in the landslide, which had already collapsed multiple homes.
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Just the roof of Weber ‘Wei’ Yen’s home is visible from his street in Rolling Hills Estates. He worries over the mementos he may never get back.
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As a Rolling Hills Estates hillside further collapses, homeowners without special coverage are unlikely to get any financial assistance from their home insurers.
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It probably won’t come as a shock that hilly and mountainous terrain is often susceptible to landslides. And Southern California has a lot of that.
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The Rolling Hills Estates City Council declared a local emergency and said residents whose homes had collapsed had their “support and sympathy.”
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Extreme heat. Unprecedented rain. Wildfires that rage for months. The Earth is giving us plenty of notice to change where and how we build.
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Multiple homes in a Rolling Hills Estates neighborhood had slid down the hillside by Tuesday as a major landslide continued to push them into a canyon.
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The ground is still moving in Rolling Hills Estates, more than a day after 12 homes were evacuated because of major ground slides.
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Homes in Rolling Hills Estates continued to move Monday morning, more than a day after 12 houses were evacuated because of a major ground shift.
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The ground is still moving in Rolling Hills Estates, more than a day after 12 homes were evacuated because of major ground slides.
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The cracks in the homes, which are on Peartree Lane bordering a canyon, were visible on the outside and inside.
