Gloria Sandoval woke up Sunday morning on a Red Cross cot in the evacuation shelter at the Pasadena Convention Center. The house she was renting in Altadena was incinerated days earlier, and Sandoval, 67, dressed in slippers, a sweatshirt and baggy pants, walked among those like her, people devastated by a storm of wind and flame that hurtled through canyons and raced across highlands.
Many were weary and broken, defiant and scared, calling relatives, listening for news of when the fires would be contained, trying to decide whether to rebuild or strike out for someplace new, a land not so tormented by overdevelopment.
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