| The ongoing fires that have killed at least 24 people in Los Angeles also burned thousands of buildings, leaving only a few still standing along their paths. On one fire-ravaged street in Pacific Palisades, one home stands alone fully intact: The newly completed house was built with heat-treated wood and a metal roof, fenced off by concrete garden walls. While Greg Chasen, the architect behind the house, credit its fate partly to luck, fire-resilient designs likely played an important role in the structure's survival. In the months and years to come, as Los Angeles recovers, such strategies could inform how the city rebuilds, Kriston Capps reports. Today on CityLab: Architects Explain How Their Homes Withstood the LA Wildfires — Magdalena Del Valle Counting the Historic Structures Destroyed by Southern California Wildfires
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As the fires rage on, the disaster threatens to upend the fragile balance between climate risk and home insurance in California. | 
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