60 years ago, my divorced mother married the widower husband of one of her former WW2 workmates; my younger sister and I found ourselves in Altadena California with a new "refrigerator dad" and his psychopath son. Details omitted, we returned to Oregon a year later.
The house we lived in on Marengo Avenue is a mile inside the Eaton fire "currently burning" zone; I haven't seen an aerial photo of the neighborhood, but I do know that the library further south is ashes, so I presume that the Marengo house (occupied by other people for decades) is also.
I'm sad for residents who lost their homes; more so for the relatives of those who ignored evacuation orders and died. But I also feel quite inappropriate relief that my childhood "house of pain" is no more.
BTW - even though Altadena was a "bedroom community" for JPL and Caltech, the schools were awful. Science class was "educational" Disney cartoons. P.E. was outside in heavy smog. The public library did not allow child geeks to check out adult-level science books, although psycho-bro would beat me for having them.
It was great to return to Beaverton schools; no gangs, better textbooks, and a few teachers with brains. My nerd friends attending Portland Public Schools were also learning and enjoying the process. Still a few psychopath students in Oregon schools, but I did not have to sleep in the same house as them.
I am VERY worried that we will lose the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Mount Wilson Observatory over the next few days. The Eaton fire might even spread a few more miles south to Caltech. Many tech professionals may move north; some to the Bay Area, some to the Silicon Forest.
If you've delayed house-hunting here, stop procrastinating before a new wave of techies arrive, looking for jobs and homes. Best case, some will be displaced entrepreneurs and business founders; creating more jobs, but also driving up prices for office space.