I think we immediately get short listed for the explanatory Pulitzer. Thanks for sharing!

At a volunteer aid spot, a family of 16 picked up blankets, food and clothing. All 16, spanning three generations, lived in three homes next to each other. All three homes burned. Now they are sleeping in their cars.

Another woman and her family rummaged through the debris to look for valuables, managed to save a couple, including a little a piece of petrified wood a grandparent had gifted. Her teenage son cried as they walked away.

One man, as he walked on what remained of his Altadena home, kept telling me how hard he had worked for his house where his boys grew up.