post-fire los angeles

the crisis is far from over, but the contours of the recovery are becoming clear

Six years ago, I stood on Sunset facing west. The light was off, too dim for that time of day—greyed out by particulate matter from the Woolsey Fire—muffling the long, sharp shadows that usually come in late afternoon in Los Angeles. The images from Malibu were worse. Horses milled around lifeguard stations, fleeing the quaint farms and ranches at the w…