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Residents Return to See What the Fire Left Behind, and to Say Goodbye

Altadena residents were allowed back into their neighborhoods this week. Most were prepared for the worst but needed to find closure in their own way.

For two weeks, Leslie Miller was desperate to recover only one thing: the urn that held the ashes of her daughter who died in early adulthood.

She wondered for days if it had survived the blaze that destroyed much of Altadena, Calif. What if, she feared, she couldn’t get back into her home before the rains came and washed her daughter’s ashes into an indistinguishable heap of debris and dust?

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