One yr after the Palisades fireplace, the relentless imaginative and prescient of blackened ruins has given strategy to a altering panorama.
It’s one thing completely different – one thing unfinished, however a brand new canvas for cities wanting to get again to one thing regular.
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Little question it’s been sluggish — begins and stops, triumphs and disappointments within the restoration of the landscapes within the fire-torched zones in and across the Palisades and Altadena. Reminders of what ignited on Jan. 7 stay.
However now that burned-out parcels have been cleared, and pockets of re-building have begun, it’s typically via the lenses of photojournalists that you may see the contrasts between then and now – between a January of darkness and a subsequent December of hope.
Will probably be an extended highway, as residents, leaders and public officers, have famous. Hundreds have but to even apply for constructing permits. And there’s a lot concern about preserving the character of beloved communities.
However body by body, day-to-day, the “then and now” image has emerged one yr later. It’s an unfinished image, however one that may hold us coming again for years, to witness a visible evolution from these horrible days in January 2025.
— SCNG Photograph Editor Dean Musgrove, with images by Jeff Gritchenhttps://youtu.be/PbT4XSt0UAo
