When the Los Angeles riots erupted in 1992, Americans recoiled at the fires silhouetting the downtown skyline.
Mansions were reduced to ash in Pacific Palisades, a West Los Angeles celebrity enclave.
Credit... Philip Cheung for The New York TimesImage The toll of the fires was only beginning to take shape on Wednesday.
Credit... Isadora Kosofsky for The New York TimesImage Southern California is critically dry, and its landscape is parched.
“There’s a kind of mantra that when the wind blows, Los Angeles burns,” said D.J.
Persons:
recoiled, Kyle Grillot, Philip Cheung, Mark Abramson, ”, Zev Yaroslavsky, Eaton, Antonio Villaraigosa, Villaraigosa, “ I’ve, Haze, Isadora Kosofsky, James Woods, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Sugar Ray, Albert C, Sanders, Joan Sanders, George Wilkins, Muffie Alejandro, Jan, Mingus, Clinton, “
Organizations:
Firefighters, The New York, The New York Times, ., Hollywood, Southern Californians, Pacific Palisades, CNN, Angeles National, Presbyterian, Pacific Palisades Presbyterian, Los, . Medical
Locations:
Southern California, Delaware, Rhode, Los Angeles County, Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, Angeles, West Los Angeles, Altadena, Sylmar, Pomona, Eaton, Los Angeles County ., Southern, Los Angeles, Los, Santa Monica, Palisades, Sunset, Santa, Santa Monica Beach . Credit, Pacific, Pottstown, Pa, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Topanga, San Gabriel Mountains, Presbyterian Church, “, San Fernando Valley, El, Lakewood