Burning at Both Ends: Surviving a Week in Wildfire-Torn Los Angeles

It’s a lesson you gradually learn, a reality you adjust to—or perhaps, to quote Jim Morrison, “learn to forget.” Occasional tremors remind you that the ground is not trustworthy: you compare earthquake notes on social media and then go about your business, or roll over in bed and go back to sleep. In our old wooden house, the vibrations travel straight…