Jim McElroy sifts through the debris of his home on Aviemore Drive in Yorba Lnda four days after the fires swept through the hills. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Newer tract of homes off Casino Ridge Road in Yorba Linda are still standing after fire burned right up to the properties. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Maintaining the traditional old town feel, barber Michael Ruocco cleans up his shop, Mike’s Trims, on Main Street in Yorba Linda. (Mark Boster /Los Angeles Times)
A mural on a parking lot wall near Imperial Highway and Main Street sets the tone for the area. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Jim McElroy sifts through the debris of his home on Aviemore Drive in Yorba Linda. Fire has changed the cadence of life in the city. A house on one street is being remodeled; another will need to be demolished and hauled away. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
The Freeway Complex fire destroyed 118 homes in Yorba Linda. The town’s entire population was less than that in 1913 when its most famous resident, Richard M. Nixon, was born there. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
A charred porcelain nativity set is one of a few items recovered from the rubble of a home on San Antonio Road in Yorba Linda five days after the firestorm. (Mark Boster /Los Angeles Times)
Jim McElroy walks through the rubble of his home on Aviemore Drive in Yorba Linda four days after the Freeway Complex fire ripped through the hills. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
