So here we are outside Good Neighbor Bar and West Altadena Wine and Spirits.

2311 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena, California.

We are standing out front of the map that we made for people to see what actually happened on the night of the Eden fire, January 7th, 2025.

Around this time, a year ago.

That's correct.

A year ago yesterday, Los Angeles started burning.

One fire started right near where our producer Sophie Casas is standing in Eaton Canyon, above Altadena, a residential community just northeast of downtown L.A.

And another exploded closer to the coast in the Pacific Palisades.

That one, authorities say, was started by an arsonist.

Two different fires, both fueled by dry conditions, spread by hurricane force winds.

The fires killed 31 people.

They destroyed more than 16,000 buildings.

They were the most expensive in history, adding up to some $65 billion in losses.

Our producer, Sophie, is on the main drag of Altadena with Randy Clement, who owns Good Neighbor

Bar and the wine shop it's attached to, West Altadena Wine and Spirits, with his wife.

Good Neighbor Bar survived the fire and has become a nerve center of sorts in the years

since.

In the hours and days after the fire, Randy drove around in his pickup truck and sometimes

even hiked into the evacuation zone using his wine shop's delivery software to help send

updates to residents about the state of their houses.

Now he and some others have put up this giant map right outside the bar of Altadena, with every house in town depicted

on it. And if you look on the map, the red houses denote the houses that were totally lost,

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