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From the flats of Pasadena, I drove uphill, into Altadena, with my heart going steadily downhill at each ashen block.

A massive scorched branch sat atop much of the ashen rubble, crushing a mangled and melted computer monitor.

Possible toxins in the melted and ashen debris could also delay a return to the campus.

A slow, sad drive up the coast on Thursday revealed so much of that familiar territory reduced to ashen ruins.

Metal railings or a charred brick chimney were all that remained to distinguish the ashen piles.