With Bel-Air evacuations temporarily lifted, a few residents return to an eerie silence
(LA Times Clippers)

As her children played in the driveway Friday morning, Masha Kirilenko stared at what remained of her cliffside compound, fists tightly clenched in the pockets of her sweatshirt. The fire that roared through Bel-Air early Wednesday knocked down more than half of what had once been a 4,350-square-foot,...