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Los Angeles fires: 'Everything is gone' - Agony on a tight-knit street reduced to ash

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Daron Anderson , 45 , lived in Altadena , a tight-knit neighbourhood of north-eastern Los Angeles .

He was looking for his cast-iron pans in the hope they might have survived the blaze.

Daron 's next-door neighbour, Dillon Akers , was at work at a donut stand in the Topanga mall as smoke started filling their neighbourhood.

The Eaton fire that tore through Altadena has now ravaged more than 14,000 acres , destroying thousands of homes and businesses, and left 11 dead.

Much of the Los Angeles region is made up of neighbourhoods and small communities just like Altadena .

On any given morning , people would walk through the lines of homes to get a cup of coffee at The Little Red Hen Coffee Shop .

Many have described decades of tight-knit community here, where they watched neighbours start families and the children who once played in the streets grow up.

VR Score

68

Informative language

64

Neutral language

57

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

34

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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