Jan. 2025 photo of Jim Rainey walking through the remnants of his childhood home, destroyed in the Palisades fire. “Yeah,” Howard agreed, “a home.”The home they owned in Altadena — near the top of Lake Avenue and just below wild brushland — burned down one year ago tonight. AdvertisementThe scope of postfire logistics can overwhelmThe family home where I grew up in Malibu, which we still own, also burned a year ago. Our old ranch house, built in 1948 and bought by my parents in 1969, had survived too many fires to remember. We already had taken much of what we wanted from the old place.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 08, 2026 01:00 UTC