Today marks one year since wildfires set parts of Los Angeles ablaze, killing 31 people,

and there's still anger and pain over the response to those fires.

Just yesterday, the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department admitted that a report on the department's response

had been watered down to ease criticism of top brass, including decisions made initially

about staffing and deployment. In two of the hardest hit areas, Altadena and the Pacific

Palisades, residents are grappling with the long process of trying to rebuild their homes

and their communities. Stephanie Sy has our report on what life is like now.

In the Pacific Palisades, the scale of rebuilding hasn't come close to the scale of destruction.

The number of rebuilding projects underway is in the low hundreds, but more than 6,000 structures

were burned in this area a year ago. when a ferocious wind-wipped

fire consumed some of the most expensive real estate in the country.

It was chaos, but weird chaos, like war.

Peggy Holter, a former TV news producer, is no stranger to conflict zones.

She never imagined she'd see her own city, its schools, houses of worship, and neighborhoods

in Embers.

Lots of people were leaving their cars and there were piles of just rubble.

It was horrible.

It was like the apocalypse.

She's one of the more than 100,000 Angelinos who were displaced by the fires last January.

So your place was right here.

Right here on the corner.

The NewsHour first met Holter a few weeks after the fires.

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