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The night and day mayor, for some people whose houses did not burn to the ground in California a year ago.

I'm David Brancaccio in Pasadena, California.

One year after the urban firestorms here were focusing on a single block in Altadena.

I lost my house on that street, but some days I worry it's even more complicated for my neighbors

who had houses that remained standing in the smoke and soot.

But literally, I mean, these embers are like snowflakes. They're falling all around us.

I can barely face this, so I'll let CNN's Anderson Cooper do the narration.

Inside that smoke is another house.

When I first saw this in real time a year ago, I could make out in the chaos that Anderson was a half block from our place.

It is sandwiched between two houses completely ablaze. There's no way that house is going to survive.

But some did survive. On my single block, 15 houses burned up, but 10 are still there, potentially habitable, but not before knowing what and how to clean.

It feels like I have a second full-time job that I'm not being paid for, and I did not ask for.

And I don't have the background, you know, me with a standing home.

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