UCLA, which is holding classes remotely this week due to the red flag conditions and the wildfires, will resume in-person instruction on Tuesday, following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday.
According to the university, in-person work will resume this weekend for people who have been working remotely, “though we continue to ask supervisors to be flexible during this challenging period.”
Undergraduate classes were cancelled on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10 and students were taking their courses online due to the wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena and smaller fires in other parts of Los Angeles County.
UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk said in an email to the campus, “We are optimistic about how things are trending: emergency responders are making progress in combating the fires, wind speed is diminishing and projections show continued safer air quality on campus.”
Frenk added that after assessing the latest information “we are ending emergency status on Friday, Jan. 17 at 5 p.m.”
UCLA was one of the many communities who received a mistaken evacuation warning on January 9, when in fact no orders had been issued involving the campus.
The alert was intended to warn communities near the Kenneth Fire not far from Hidden Hills, but instead it was sent to millions of residents in Los Angeles County.