After authorities reopened parts of Altadena for the first time since the Eaton fire, residents returned to a grim checkerboard of destroyed homes next to others that were largely spared.

Loma Alta Park, where the public swimming pool once served as a summertime sanctuary for her and other Black residents, had been ravaged by the Eaton fire. Standing outside a nearby community ...

Col. Eric Swenson, Los Angeles Wildfires Recovery Field Office Commander for the military engineering branch, said entering ...