'kafkaesque': one man's struggle to build a hillside home in l.a.
andri luescher just wants to build a 1,400-square-foot home for his family in mount washington. but four years and $73,000 in permit costs later, he still hasn't broken ground.
l.a. has never experienced loss on this scale. measuring progress six months after the fires is hard and painful - aol
six months after the worst firestorm in los angeles county history, a look at the eaton and palisades fires cleanup, government responses, investigations and legal action.
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here's a roundup of the fires in socal
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