Altadena’s 104-year holiday lighting tradition known as Christmas Tree Lane escaped damage from the Eaton fire despite a rain of embers and fierce winds.

Marissa Rutka, left, and husband Kevin Clark-Ryan, who said their house was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, walk along Santa Rosa Avenue, also known as Christmas Tree Lane, on Jan. 9, the day after ...

Read more: Altadena had soul, solitude and community. Can those qualities survive devastating firestorm? The area lighting event that began in 1920 still has a small-town, old-fashioned feel, with ...

Read the story here: He built a massive train set in his Altadena backyard ... surrounded by towering cedars lit by Christmas lights. It was all kind of magical. That was on Jan.

The Eaton fire cut a brutal swath through Altadena and a cherished way of life in this eclectic foothill community it upended.

Several homes in the area have burned, but the neighborhood’s famous trees, decorated each year for the holidays, did not appear to be ablaze at mid-day.

Old Altadena is gone and residents are left ... The street largely survived, along with plastic, colorful Christmas lights still hanging on the massive deodars. Branches had fallen and a few ...