All the Walls Came Down

1/19/2026

If you saw this year's “Lost Bus” then you’ll know the fires we are talking about here, and with over fifty square miles of devastation left in the wake of a conflagration started by some dodgy electric cables, this introduces us to some of the families trying to rebuild their lives from the ashes of areas including Altadena in Los Angeles. Understandably, many of the contributors are angry here and so blame is being attributed to the authorities, the power company, the emergency services and there are allegations abounding that not only were the predominately African American communities neglected at the time, but that there are now land grab operations occurring to prevent many of the folks who’d lived in these communities for decades from being able to afford to return. Insurances polic