One year ago, on the night of January 7, 2025, a devastating windstorm raged across the Los Angeles area, providing fuel to the most destructive wildfires in the city’s history — the Eaton Fire in Altadena and the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades. Breitbart News visited the site of the Eaton Fire on the eve of its anniversary, where the historic city of Altadena has been reduced to a land of empty lots with little reconstruction.
“Instead of burned houses, we just have empty lots,” Breitbart News noted upon visiting one neighborhood. “The overall story in these parts is little progress. If there’s one pattern I’m noticing up here, you would have expected this to be a bustling construction zone, but that’s just not the case up here. A lot of it is just very peaceful and quiet — very little activity happening.”
Neighborhoods that once obstructed the line of sight out to the horizon were seen to have been completely flatt
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