As many as 12,000 homes, businesses and other structures may have been destroyed in the wildfires raging in Los Angeles County, rendering entire communities ashen piles of rubble.

Sitting in the hotel room where his family sheltered from the Eaton Fire, Eric Martin was certain his Altadena, California, house – the place he’d once believed his 1- and 3-year-old sons would know ...

Sitting in the hotel room where his family sheltered from the Eaton Fire, Eric Martin was certain his Altadena, California, house – the place he’d once believed his 1- and 3-year-old sons ...

The first home Altadena resident Eric Martin has ever owned sustained significant smoke ... ‘It’s going to take a long time’ ...

Rodney Nickerson had lived in Altadena since 1968, when he bought his three-bedroom house on Alta Pine Drive with $5 down.

Rodney Nickerson, 82, died in his Altadena ... at Lockheed Martin, where he worked for the next 45 years, she said. He and his late wife, Suzette, raised two children, Kimiko and Eric, in the ...