The Los Angeles fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

The internet has exploded with fake images of the Hollywood sign burning, conspiracy theories about satanic rituals, and misinformation about government property seizures.

This is the first in a short series of photo essays about the California wildfires. This first post will focus on the fires themselves. California Wildfires: The Fire Still Rages originally appeared o