Pacific Palisades businesses slowly return to work with ‘a lot of people gone’

Even after a year, the faint smell of burnt wood still wafts through the air along the Sunset Boulevard business district in the Pacific Palisades.

The Jan. 7, 2025, firestorm in the seaside community and in neighboring Malibu turned to ash more than 23,448 acres, killed a dozen people, destroyed 6,837 structures and damaged nearly 1,000 others before extinguished on Jan. 31.

David Tishbi lost everything in the fire: his jewelry business at 860 Via De La Paz, his home along Enchanted...