The Times investigates California's response to the devastating wildfires that burned across Los Angeles County in January.

The state’s regulator wants insurance carriers to pay full policy limits without requiring victims to itemize every object in their destroyed homes.

The Pasadena and Altadena communities honored the victims of the Eaton Fire with a memorial service. Nearly 30 people were killed in the Eaton and Palisades fires.

So far, many clues to the origins of the deadly Eaton fire, which started in the area just after 6 p.m. that evening and went on to kill 17 people, have pointed to the brushy hillside where a tangle of electrical lines stretch up Eaton Canyon.