In January 2025, wildfires swept through Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, killing at least 31 people, leveling homes, forcing mass evacuations, and causing damage estimated in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars. My photographs capture the immediate impact, firefighters overwhelmed, residents fleeing with only minutes to spare, and ashen streets where daily life once unfolded. This series documents the human toll and devastation, offering visual evidence that the climate crisis is not a distant threat but a present reality reshaping one of the world’s largest urban centers.