Jeanette Marantos has been a writer for the Los Angeles Times Homicide Report since 2015 and the Saturday garden section since 2016, a yin and yang that keeps her perspective in balance. A year after the fire, however, they are nowhere close to getting their house rebuilt.

I wanted to honor her at a lovely celebration of life with all her favorite people on a sunny SoCal patio. Wagner, now a Malibu councilman, doesn’t want another wood-frame house. Wagner is nonchalant as he tells this story, almost good-humored, except when he gets to the part about his aluminum ladder, which melted in the heat. By 6 a.m, Mikke Pierson told his wife it was time for them to leave too. Other large trees loom over the house on the south, running counter to the conventional wisdom to keep the area around our homes clear of overhanging branches. When the fire roared though later that morning, their detached garage caught fire (“I think I forgot to close a window,” Leah said), the remaining car in their driveway was incinerated and several perimeter trees were singed, but their redwood pool house with the metal screens survived intact, even though the fire got hot enough to melt a 500-gallon plastic water tank on its eastern flank. Leah and Paul Culberg had lived in their stone Lobo Canyon home only a year when the Mandeville Canyon fire ignited a wood balcony, spread to the eaves and burned their house from the inside out in 1978. She drove away as the fire advanced and panicked neighbors followed suit. Cal Fire reported it had contained the blaze that killed three people and destroyed more than 1,600 homes. “It just crossed the gully and he watched the front of the flames go right through our property. “During the first two days of the Woolsey Fire, 53 percent of the fire engine mutual aid requests were unfilled,” it finds. Mikke Pierson, Malibu’s mayor pro tem, stands in the back yard of his home as his dog, Jack, darts through his meadow of deer grass and other fire-retardant shrubs, which he thinks helped keep the fire from his Malibu home. “Rancho Culbergo,” the Lobo Canyon home of Leah and Paul Culberg, is a oasis of green after the Woolsey Fire razed surrounding chaparral and 12 neighboring homes on Nov. 9, 2018. His gardens were terraced, carved into the hill like his three-story home. Prior to the Woolsey Fire, the biggest park fire was the 1993 Green Meadows Fire at 38,000 acres. The lacquered wood trim showed some scorching, but otherwise the fire that destroyed their house left their studio unscathed. The fire is still burning, but is now limited in how much further it can go. For the survivors, there were some surprising lessons learned, about landscaping and building materials, what happens after the flames go away, and how to prepare for the next firestorm.It’s been a little over a year since the Woolsey fire began its assault on the Santa Monica Mountains, so survivors of that devastation can talk pretty calmly about what they and their neighbors experienced. Richard is a film composer, and his Craftsman-style Woodshed Recording studio, with its cedar-shake siding, slate roof and deck, and lacquered wood trim has hosted many artists. Some people have moved into trailers on their property as they wait to rebuild, but Wagner chose a different route. The Woolsey Fire and the nearby Hill Fire have forced the evacuation of nearly 250,000 residents from their homes near the Pacific Coast in California’s Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

It burned nearly 97,000 acres in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. He recently poured three asphalt pads on a small patch of level ground outside his garage, and there he’s installing three Tuff Sheds, one for a bedroom/living area, one plumbed as a kitchen and the smallest one plumbed as a bathroom.“I’ve gone from 4,500 square feet to 350, but at least we’ll be living on the property,” he said. “I couldn’t get it on my roof.” When he rebuilds, he said, he’ll attach a ladder to the outside wall of his house made out of a sturdier metal less likely to melt.

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