There had been a wildfire there months earlier, one that burned nearly 200 homes in Altadena and Sierra Madre. On March 6 of that year, after rain fell deep in the mountains, a wall of mud rumbled ...

Climbing from palms to pines as the altitude increases, the small, secluded towns of the Sierra Madres start to come into view. Named "the place of God" in the native Nahuatl, the structures that ...