I started receiving texts from other friends who were fleeing Altadena. Families like Jeff and Kevin, two Marines who fell in love in the service, got married at the Altadena Town & Country Club, and had a beautiful baby boy together.

There was no official alert about the wildfire barreling toward the mountainous community of Altadena, California, Erion Taylor remembers. Instead, she got a text from her neighborhood group chat ...

Los Angeles Times reporter Colleen Shalby takes a look at Altadena, a city hit heavily by the fires but also, her hometown.

Bernadette Murphy grew up near Altadena, where the California wildfires are hitting hardest. Her son lives in Altadena and was told to evacuate his home.

A shining star towering over Altadena continues to glow over the ... Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter.

How the victims rebuild their lives will now depend largely on California’s beleaguered home insurance market. Unlike many fire victims in other parts of the L.A. area, the Quintons and many of their neighbors had been able to maintain their insurance policies in the leadup to the fire,

ALTADENA, Calif. — Maral Nazarian has been waking at night thinking about what she could have saved. Family passports. Important files. The toddler art of her two grown daughters. The 59-year ...

Altadena has not yet experienced issues like these, but that might not last. California prohibits insurance companies from dropping customers in fire-struck areas for at least a year, but ...

The Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up again this week, making the Palisades and Eaton fires, among others, more difficult to contain as they continue to rage in Southern California.

ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Despite the burned out cars, the shelves of homes, and the businesses left in ruins, Altadena seems to be making a comeback promise. Those who live here are praying it's true. "It's a great little community, you know, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else," stated Wiley Calkins.

As wind-whipped fires turned the L.A.-area neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades and Altadena from sunny Southern California paradise into smoky hellscape, photojournalists who captured the blazes ...

“It can be very deceiving.” The search in Altadena is being conducted by at least 100 people led by California Regional Urban Search and Rescue teams, made up of firefighters and others ...