Eaton

Artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, affected by the Eaton fire, traces memories and time

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Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio didn’t sleep the entire night before the Eaton fire hit his Altadena neighborhood in early January. The intensity of the winds and power outage had him on edge. The artist and his partner were sitting in the dark, on their phones, glued to the news as harrowing details came out of the … Read more

Their homes and school burned in the Eaton fire. But these theater kids rise from the ashes

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This is a story about 60 kids who lost their homes, their theater, their whole neighborhoods to the Eaton fire as it raged through Altadena on a ferociously windy night one week into the new year. For the students of Altadena Arts Magnet and Eliot Arts Magnet schools, however, the story does not end there. … Read more