In the catastrophic Palisades fire, one of the city’s iconic thoroughfares was severely damaged and large swaths of homes were reduced to smoldering rubble.

Plumes of smoke are seen as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as seen from Santa Monica. The Palisades Fire burns beyond a Sunset Boulevard street sign. Smoke rises from a burning vehicle.

Fleeing Pacific Palisades proved a terrifying challenge for residents as roads jammed with traffic and the fast-moving fire made evacuation routes risky.

A line of vehicles stretching two or three miles snaked along Pacific Coast Highway as motorists ... The crystal shone even ...

Days after a devastating wildfire, residents of Pacific ... at Palisades Recreation Center’s Field of Dreams. Sunday morning was a time for the farmer’s market just off Sunset Boulevard ...

Much of Pacific Coast Highway ... Streets” neighborhood of the Palisades, a mostly flat residential grid in a U-shaped pocket just north of Sunset Boulevard, was blackened rubble and dust.