2025-01-15
10 分钟For Black residents, Altadena represented something more than suburban living. It was a foothold in generational prosperity.
I'm Karina Noel, a correspondent for the.
New York Times based in Los Angeles.
When the fires broke out in Los Angeles last week,
there was a lot of attention paid to the Palisades fire,
in part because it's a scenic, beautiful location.
There's a lot of celebrity homes, very rich mansions.
But we wanted to also draw attention to the Eaton fire,
where entire neighborhoods have also been ravaged.
And there's one place that I was very interested in,
this historic community of middle class black families who have been there for decades.
Altadena is a small community just east of Los Angeles.
It's in the foothills of the San.
Gabriel Mountains, and it's kind of this.
Rustic community where people kind of live a bit of a rural lifestyle.
Many in the neighborhood were longtime homeowners.
Who bought homes for like $75,000.
And their homes were often passed down to each generation.
You have people in their parents home, their grandfather's home.
When the Eaton fire came, it just ravaged these neighborhoods.
There are entire streets that are just gone.