After losing their homes in the Eaton Fire, an Altadena neighborhood vowed to find the firefighter who left them a heartwarming letter of perseverance.

When fires swept through Altadena, in Los Angeles County, generational wealth and a place of opportunity for people of color, went up in smoke.

Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have erased that legacy.

While visiting the wildfire-torn community of Altadena Thursday, leading House Democrats called for federal assistance without "political" conditions — a day after the Trump Administration rescinded a memo issuing a freeze on federal funding.

Two brave firefighters from Prescott Valley, Arizona, have returned from Southern California, where they faced the region's most catastrophic wildfire. Captain Sean Jones and his Central Arizona Fire crew joined forces with international teams to confront a wind-driven conflagration that caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles.

The community of Altadena and other areas impacted by the Los Angeles-area wildfires will forever change the community as new fires continue to pop up in southern California.

I moved away from California about 35 years ago, but I still think about the years I spent there. When I used to look up my old neighborhood in Altadena, CA on Google Maps, it was always green. Last week, when I looked it up on the Eaton Fire map, it was all yellow. When I looked it up tonight on a different map, it was mostly red.

Fast forward to now, the aftermath of a catastrophic January day in 2025, when extreme wind fueled the hellish Eaton fire that destroyed thousands of homes, killed at least 17 people, and leveled scores of local landmarks, schools, churches and businesses.

Cindy Carcamo is a staff writer in Food for the Los Angeles Times. She most recently covered immigration issues as a Metro reporter and, before that, served as Arizona bureau chief and national correspondent in the Southwest. A Los Angeles native, she has reported in Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, and is a former staff writer at the Orange County Register. Albert Brave Tiger Lee is a Southern California native, son of Korean immigrants, a father and a staff videographer at the Los Angeles Times. His work spans various mediums of visual storytelling and has been recognized for various disciplines including a national Emmy Award for News and Documentary, an RFK Journalism Award, Pictures of the Year International honors, the National Press Photographers Assn.’s Best of Photojournalism Award and Columbia University’s Dart Award.

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Eight Arizona task forces were sent to battle wildfires in California and their battalion chief is sharing his experience from what he's seen over the last three weeks.