ALTADENA, Calif. – Wildfires continue to burn in Southern California amid a renewed wind threat, and even days later, many people still can't return to their homes. Cities such as Altadena were ...

Randy and Miki Quinton held hands as they walked uphill into what remains of their neighborhood in Altadena, the unincorporated Los Angeles suburb where they had lived for more than 20 years.

I am lucky beyond all imagination. I am haunted beyond all reason. I am spared. Nobody is spared. I am rounding the sharp turn that enters my leafy Altadena cul-de-sac, my home for the last dozen ...