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

Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty A middle school teacher of 15 years is reaching out to his community amid the fires impacting Altadena and Pasadena Eric Glenn ...

The two-bedroom house along East Altadena Drive was purchased ... "Gwen," had graduated from a Chicago high school at 16 and later worked as a special education teacher in California.

Power outages from the Santa Anas are not unusual in L.A., and despite the Palisades Fire raging across town, they were ...

Some now fear the most destructive fires in California’s history have ... the Civil Rights era, Altadena became a rare land of opportunity for Black Americans to reach middle class without ...

Families and staff at St. Elizabeth Parish School lost homes to the fire. It’s weathered past disasters. “We have good DNA” its principal says.

Suarez-Giles, a three-time business owner, said they ironically moved into their Altadena ... house when the fire closed in. A teacher from her son’s school was renting a room in their home ...

Matt Johnson, one of the Dover Middle School teachers who was part of the 25-year-old time capsule, wore the same cap and ...