Families of color, making up over half of Altadena, have bought homes and kept them for generations. The Black homeownership rate exceeds 80%, almost double the national rate.

ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC ... full of family photos of the family's grandparents and parents from Cuba and Mexico. "It was joy because it brought all of a sudden ... all the loss was kind of ...

Cindy Carcamo is a staff writer in Food for the Los Angeles Times. She most recently covered immigration issues as a Metro reporter and, before that, served as Arizona bureau chief and national correspondent in the Southwest. A Los Angeles native, she has reported in Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, and is a former staff writer at the Orange County Register. Albert Brave Tiger Lee is a Southern California native, son of Korean immigrants, a father and a staff videographer at the Los Angeles Times. His work spans various mediums of visual storytelling and has been recognized for various disciplines including a national Emmy Award for News and Documentary, an RFK Journalism Award, Pictures of the Year International honors, the National Press Photographers Assn.’s Best of Photojournalism Award and Columbia University’s Dart Award.

There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California, Erion Taylor remembers. Instead, she got a text from her neighborhood group chat ...

We continue our coverage of the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have killed at least 24 people as of Monday. Some 150,000 more have been forced to evacuate their homes and over 40,

Gov. Gavin Newsom said firefighters from Mexico were en route to help fight the Eaton Fire. The Eaton Fire is one of several still burning and devastating the Los Angeles area. The fire was first reported Tuesday, Jan. 7, near Altadena and Midwick drives.

These photos chronicle the catastrophic scale of destruction from wildfires in California that started on January 7.

President Trump surveyed destruction in Pacific Palisades by air and on foot during his visit to Los Angeles County on Friday afternoon, but he did not visit the ravaged community of Altadena.

Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 82,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 90,000 are under evacuation warnings.

More than a week after fires forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in the Los Angeles area, residents who lost everything are left to deal with the aftermath.They talk to Andrea Caval

Evacuation orders have been lifted for thousands of Californians, while new blazes ignited in the city of San Diego and on the Mexico border and a red flag emergency warning for critical fire risk was extended.

More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles.