Josie Huang covers Asian American communities for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
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A phalanx of members from the National Guard, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and the California Highway Patrol stand sentinel at intersections along Woodbury Road, only letting in emergency personnel, utility crews and media.Across Woodbury, several donation centers have spontaneously sprung up to serve the Altadena residents who regularly visit the checkpoints to see if this is the day they are allowed entry to see their homes and beloved stomping grounds.
At the Pasadena Community Job Center, volunteers get instructions on cleaning up debris left by the windstorm that led to the Eaton fire.The job center doubles as a donation center, and SUV's are packed so tightly with goods the driver can't see out the rear-view mirror sidle up Lake, where volunteers, with the efficiency of an assembly line, unload cases of water bottles and hygiene kits.No more used clothes for now, the center's coordinators plead.
Marquez, who regularly visits national sites of tragedies to create places for people to commune, has painted the fire engines, a water hydrant, a donkey fleeing the fires, along with the enduring images of L.A. — a palm tree, mariachi musician and a movie camera. He plans to leave the mural behind for anyone who wants it when he goes home.
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