Lorena Iñiguez Elebee

1 month ago | latimes.com | David Wharton |Lorena Iñiguez Elebee

The wildfires that devastated Southern California, reducing entire neighborhoods to checkerboards of ash, have left behind tough questions about how to rebuild in this land of dry brush and wind. The answers might involve more than just new homes made of flame-resistant materials. Altadena and Pacific Palisades — essentially reduced to blank slates — have a chance to reimagine themselves in a fundamentally safer way, experts who study wildfire behavior say.