Paradise, Calif. — She is standing in the driveway of a sand-colored house — she doesn’t know whose — and the air is choked with smoke. The sky is a nuclear orange. Wind is hurling embers against her body and into her blond wavy hair. She has…
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Paradise, Calif. — She is standing in the driveway of a sand-colored house — she doesn’t know whose — and the air is choked with smoke. The sky is a nuclear orange. Wind is hurling embers against her body and into her blond wavy hair. She has…
by Cindy Carcamo Los Angeles Times, Ruben Vives Los Angeles Times, and Corina Knoll Los Angeles Times