It took nearly a decade for Cody Wellema to perfect his dream hat shop. It took one night to reduce it to ash. Early Wednesday morning, the Wellema Hat Company, located on Mariposa Street in the Altadena neighborhood, became one of the innumerable businesses across Los Angeles to be destroyed by this week’s spate of…
As wildfires blazed through Los Angeles on Wednesday, Ellen Marie Bennett shared a plea with her Instagram followers. Could someone, ideally someone with a spare trailer, help evacuate her roughly 300-pound potbellied pig? “He is very heavy and very big so it’s not an easy task,” she wrote. The problem — named Oliver — was…
Jane Brown watched on television Tuesday night as a large condominium complex in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles went up in flames. It was her 92-year-old mother’s home. By Wednesday morning, Ms. Brown, 63, saw that the building was “completely just not there at all.” Iris Kameny, Ms. Brown’s mother, had evacuated to…
