When fires swept through Altadena, in Los Angeles County, generational wealth and a place of opportunity for people of color, went up in smoke.

The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management sent 150 people and equipment to Southern California to combat wildfires that erupted Jan. 7.

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.

After Aveson Charter School in Altadena, California, was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, a Phoenix charter school stepped up to “adopt” the students and staff from the school that burned to the ground.

An Arizona school has offered to help students of Aveson Charter after two of their campuses were leveled by the Eaton Fire.

They told me they are moving to Arizona because they can ... Los Angeles area fires will be the worst in California history. But considering what Altadena residents face now, the 2018 blaze ...

Battalion Chief Rich Jones is sharing what he has experienced during his three weeks fighting the California wildfires that have burned through Altadena and Palisades. FOX 10's Lindsey Ragas has more.

Two Prescott Valley firefighters are back home after helping battle one of the most destructive wildfires in Southern California’s history.

Defiant and armed Los Angeles homeowners in the scorched Altadena community have taken to the streets to defend the homes that remain standing — even if those streets have been blocked off by a police line amid evacuation orders and raging wildfires, residents say.

In this section of western Altadena, residents weren't ordered to evacuate until after 5 a.m., according to records reviewed by The Times. That was well after smoke and flames were threatening the area.

The 10,396-acre Hughes fire reached 56% containment Friday as first responders made progress controlling multiple blazes burning in Los Angeles County, which is expected to receive rain over the weekend that could be capable of producing floods and mudslides in several burned areas.

Under mandatory evacuation, Jones and several other Altadena residents were met by yellow caution tape and National Guard and California Highway Patrol personnel. Frustrated and unable to reach ...