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Altadena and Pacific Palisades — essentially reduced to blank slates — have a chance to reimagine themselves in a fundamentally safer way, experts who study wildfire behavior say.

Disaster recovery experts say it’s usually people of more modest means who hit a wall in the rebuilding process and end up selling their lots to developers and high-income individuals who build pricier homes.

Some experts estimate that nearly a half-million federal workers could be laid off within the next two years.

Activists and academic experts say fossil fuel companies, like tobacco companies before them, use ads at sports stadiums and other cultural institutions to build goodwill and normalize the harms caused by their products.

The conditions most likely to result in a refused claim were those that may be managed more successfully by an adult than a child, like diabetes or asthma, experts said.