A Hellscape in All Directions’: The Devastating Fires That Ignited Crisis and Chaos in L.A.

Story by wsj.

LOS ANGELES—The fire rose from the bone-dry hills, as so many others have, and then rapidly tore across the coast and hills of one of America’s most famous cities—oblivious to the demographics of the lives it disrupted. It burned mansions in Malibu and low-income housing in Pasadena.