LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shaw Zhao was worried even before he arrived in Los Angeles last week: His father’s neighborhood was in an evacuation zone as deadly wildfires raged in the metropolitan area, and Zhao hadn’t heard from the 84-year-old the previous night.
As he made his way from the airport to Zhi-feng Zhao’s home in the Altadena neighborhood on Jan. 8, he was stopped by police blockades. So he went to a shelter for evacuees, searching every bed for his father’s familiar face to no avail.
The next day, he got into the neighborhood on foot, walking for an hour with his Lyft driver and the man’s wife —
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