Hi, I'm Reese Tebow. This is Post Reports Weekend. It's Saturday, September 13th.

I'm a reporter on the America team. And what you're going to hear in a moment is a story about one block in one neighborhood in a town called Altadena, California, which is a suburb just outside of Los Angeles. And you might recognize the name

Altadina because that's where a massive wildfire burned down thousands of homes in January.

This reporting is part of a Washington Post series called Deep Reads. It's part of our commitment

to narrative journalism. I reported and wrote this story with

three of my colleagues, Nick Carpatrick, Malina Mara, and Alice Lee. I'll be narrating it,

and instead of me just reading the quotes, you'll hear some audio from our many interviews

with three families in particular who all live on this one block

of West Las Flores Drive in Altadena.

I live in Los Angeles, and so does my colleague Nick.

Melina and Alice live in California, too.

So when the Eaton and Palisades fires broke out, basically in our backyards this year,

we knew we would stay to document the long and painful recovery process, when the flames were

finally put out and the spotlight faded. And we've spent hours and hours with the three families

you're about to hear from. They open their lives to us at an impossibly difficult time,

and we're incredibly grateful to each one.

Our reporting team plans to continue following their stories in the months to come.

Okay, here's the story. The Hulking yellow excavator lumbered across charred ground and raised its arm above a blackened heap of metal and ash.

It was a machine built for unearthing,

but this moment felt more like a burial. Here lay the remains of 295 West Las Flores Drive,

and the house that for more than a century had amassed milestones and memories.

Its brown brick chimney, all that survived the flames, towered over the lot like a tombstone.

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