There are three jars, sealed and placed in the courtyard of Lara and Jarad Fisher’s rented home in west Los Angeles. Inside each is rubble and ash, like specimens harvested from a faraway planet.
They are the family’s only remnants of their home after the Palisades fire, which tore through their neighbourhood on January 7 last year, killing 12 people and destroying 6,837 buildings.
Their eight-year-old daughter, Liv, did not want to return for many months, until she suggested collecting the ashes. “She wanted to go back to dig,” said her father, Jarad, 47.
