A month ago, two devastating fires ignited in Los Angeles.
Fueled by bone-dry conditions in Southern California and fanned by severe Santa Ana winds, the blazes quickly spread.
Within hours, entire neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades, to the west of the city, and Altadena, to the northwest, were alight.
What remains from the fires that broke out Jan. 7 is a charred landscape, filled with skeletal trees and blackened debris.
Arizona State University’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program, a joint program between the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Sydney Poitier New American Film School, set out to document the before-and-after of the fires.
The videos that are embedded in this article can be manipulated to provide a before-and-after 360-degree view of the areas.
The corner of Galloway Street and Bashford Street in Pacific Palisades is seen before and after the Palisades fire in January 2025. (Video by Ashley Buschhorn, Joy Guey, Parjin Eghbali/Arizona State University)On Galloway and Bashford streets, seen in the video above, stately two-story homes graced the quiet Pacific Palisades streets a half-mile from the Santa Monica Mountains.
When the Palisades fire sparked about 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in the nearby mountains, it quickly engulfed the hillside community. Burned-out cars, singed trees and a few chimneys and fences standing sentinel over the barren lots were all that remained after the fire roared through.
The corner of Hartzell Street and Carey Street in Pacific Palisades is seen before and after the Palisades fire in January 2025. (Video by Ashley Buschhorn/Arizona State University)A block to the south, at Hartzell and Carey streets, above, stone remnants of Spanish-style homes stood opposite less fire-resistant structures that were leveled in the blaze.
The Palisades fire destroyed 6,833 structures and damaged 973 others, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
But it was not the only fire to ignite in L.A. on that fateful Tuesday.
Marathon Road in Altadena is seen before and after the Eaton fire in January 2025. (Video by Ashley Buschhorn/Arizona State University)About eight hours after the Palisades fire erupted, the Eaton fire started above the foothill community of Altadena.
Marathon Road, seen in the video above, is a half-mile from the San Gabriel Mountains, where the fire began.
The block of single-family homes, mostly low-slung ranch styles with manicured yards, was reduced to ash and rubble.
The corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Pine Street in Altadena is seen before and after the Eaton fire in January 2025. (Video by Ashley Buschhorn/Arizona State University)A couple of blocks away, at Fair Oaks Avenue and Pine Street, a healthy green hedgerow that served as a built-in privacy fence was scorched.
Across the street, the only thing still standing where a tidy one-story house had previously wrapped around the corner of the intersection was a brick chimney. The destruction continued in every direction.
The Eaton fire obliterated 9,418 structures and damaged 1,073 others, according to CalFire’s final incident report.
The destruction of both the Eaton and Palisades fires left more than 37,000 acres of wildlands and urban areas burned. The devastation includes the deaths of at least 29 people.
The fires that burned across Los Angeles in early January killed 29 people. (Photo by Nonny de la Peña/Arizona State University)Ashley Buschhorn is a graduate student in Arizona State University’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program. With a combination of journalism and computer science in her undergraduate studies, Buschhorn is uniquely skilled at creating compelling immersive journalism stories.
Nonny de la Peña is program director of ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program. With nearly 20 years working in media, she is widely considered the pioneer behind immersive journalism.
Mary Matheson is an award-winning immersive director specializing in nonfiction storytelling and a professor in ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program.
Jet Olaño is the Learning Technology Specialist in ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program, specializing in virtual production.
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