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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Community members to put their tech skills and cameras to work, creating an online map of about 15,000 homes in the Eaton Fire zone that allows users to click through to current photos of those properties.

When the Eaton Fire blazed through Altadena earlier this month it took more than homes and memories — it devastated a city that has long been a haven for Black families.

With parts of Los Angeles County still smoldering from wildfires, the expected rain this weekend would seem like a welcome relief. But how the rain falls could make the difference between a disaster respite or a disaster repeat.

From California residents who attend school in Connecticut, to a longtime New Haven resident who moved there, many have felt loss from the Los Angeles fires.

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

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.

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.