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 ...

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 ...

In 1922, the Balian family bought a home in Altadena, having made their money by making ice cream, and turned it into the "house of the 10,000 lights" each Christmas. Their fellow Armenians dominated ...

But a drive through the charred neighborhoods around Altadena shows that the fires ... Some now fear the most destructive fires in California’s history have altered that for good.

North Altadena remains under lockdown and as of Friday morning, an extensive number of side streets along Altadena Drive and New York Drive were made accessible to first responders only.