Construction workers rebuild a home in the Sunset Mesa neighborhood of eastern Malibu after the Palisades Fire in 2025. | Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The Associated Press this week reported a stunning fact: Of the 13,000 homes destroyed a year ago in the extraordinary wildfires in and around Los Angeles, fewer than a dozen have been rebuilt.  The massive, fast-moving wildfires that tore through Los Angeles County last January directly killed at least 31 people and sickened many more, torching more than 16,000 structures in total. With an economic toll estimated...

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