A washing machine, charred. Christmas ornaments hanging from a tree. On Tuesday, a week after a fire started blazing through Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, incinerating homes and upending lives ...

Loved ones are rallying around a Southern California man who spent decades volunteering with Operation Santa after he lost ...

Philip Alderton spent many Christmas holidays dressed as Santa ... he quickly evacuated his Pacific Palisades mobile home and fled to safety, not knowing what would be left when he returned.