Along the broad Temescal Canyon Road that connects Sunset Boulevard to the beach, the Pierson Playhouse is gone, burned except for a few metal steel beams. The Palisades high school still has its main buildings, but fire trucks were working on extinguishing fires still burning in a building near the football field.

Wildfires have devastated a celebrity-filled neighborhood in Los Angeles, destroying homes, canceling major industry events, and ravaging a high school featured in movies like ‘Carrie’ and ‘Freaky Friday.

LAFD firefighter Cpt. Robert Hawkins and his crew monitored a burning garage to make sure the fire wouldn't spread to the house next to it.

Residents of Pacific Palisades were able to return home briefly on Thursday after the deadly wildfires devastated the tight-knit coastal community.

Amid the wide destruction of the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, there were symbols of hope. One of them was a temple still standing amid the destruction. It's a place that NBC News' Jacob Soboroff knows well.

A Pacific Palisades resident returned to his mobile home on Jan. 8 to find only rubble and burnt out cars.

Los Angeles Times photographer Robert Gauthier took an aerial tour of the damage to Pacific Palisades after the fires. Robert Gauthier has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. He was the photographer for a project detailing the failings of an L.