The escalating scope and scale of the Los Angeles wildfires catastrophe won’t be fully measured anytime soon, but every number added to the thousands of homes that lay in ruin across the region represents a personal story of terror, heartbreak and the long journey of grief to come.
TheWrap reached out to its readers and industry contacts to collect some of these personal stories. Here are some of them, in their own words:
Brad Peyton, Filmmaker
Brad Peyton is the director of blockbuster films like “San Andreas” (2015), “Rampage” (2018) and “Atlas” (2024). He has lived in California for over a decade, with a house located in Altadena.