Gene Huang Lee stood in the backyard of his Spanish-style house on Altadena’s Braeburn Road, surveying the ash and rubble as he reflected on what could have been. The neighborhood barbecues in front ...

The largest wildfire to hit Los Angeles this week rapidly tore through homes and communities, whipped by winds that sent embers skyward.

• Warnings for days: The immediate causes of the fires were not clear yet, but officials had been cautioning for days that ...