""I would fill up every water bottle I had and drive an hour back to the Palisades and water the jacaranda trees in my yard,""
""People are doing things like that, because it's such a healing thing to take care of a living thing near your home.""
Pacific Palisades shows extensive postfire clearing of wreckage by the Army Corps of Engineers while many street trees survived and remain as tangible links to the community's past. Residents have actively watered and cared for surviving jacarandas and other trees as a form of healing and continuity. The landscape and surviving trees have become central to debates over rebuilding and resiliency, with many residents opposing mandated ember-resistant clearances. Zone Zero would require large noncombustible buffers around homes and removal of vegetation, a proposal supported by state fire officials, the insurance industry, and expedited by state authorities.
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