Priority one: Get away from the fire. Priority two: Find safe shelter. That’s the choice Altadena resident Karen Dekker faced as she packed her 87-year-old mother, 15-year-old son and two German ...

Many of those in attendance, like San Gabriel Unified schoolteacher Karen Dekker, lost their homes to the Eaton Fire. “It’s hard,” Dekker told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo. “It’s hard to lose ...

Karen Chirre allegedly pointed at the body of Dekker, and said Dekker had started the fire and that Bruce Chirre had caught him and "put him down." Police initially processed the scene around the ...

Dekker, according to the latest from PPB ... second degree assault and tampering with physical evidence. Bruce and Karen Chirre were arrested Friday and booked into the Multnomah County jail.