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"content": "\u003cp>“It woke you up in a way where you felt your humanity and you felt the humanity of the people around you. You understood what it felt like to really love people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t stop thinking about this line from my friend Tara Zorthian. I was interviewing her about her former home, the Zorthian Ranch, which burned down in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\"> the Eaton Canyon fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was searching to capture the meaning of a place that is impossible to define.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a ranch. An artist community. A homestead. A portal to a different way of life. But there’s something else going on there. A sense of magic, hidden in the mountains, that reveals itself to those who leave behind the trappings of modern urban life and surrender to the silliest, most whimsical, most open version of themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have witnessed this place transform people. It even happened to me, a journalist from New Jersey with a rather serious disposition. I only lived at the Ranch for a matter of months, but have been a visitor for much longer. And during that time, I unlocked a new version of myself that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1920x1189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Writer Sam Anderson outside a burned out bus at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. (Right) One of the burned vehicles on the ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I came to the Ranch was in 2019 for a volunteer workday. As my tiny Volkswagen rattled across the precarious bridge and up the windy dirt road, I felt nervous with anticipation. What is this place? How does it possibly exist among the dense urban sprawl of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I arrived at the top of the road to find a rambling property filled with strange buildings and objects. Art was everywhere. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I joined a group of twenty or so people engaged in some form of toiling. I can’t remember what we did that day – probably pulled weeds or tossed some rocks into a pile or something similar. It was a sweltering summer day and by the afternoon everyone was covered in dirt and sweat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s emblazoned in my memory forever is what happened after the work was done. Everyone stripped completely naked and jumped in the pool. Music turned on. Drinks appeared. A raucous party began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool was perched on top of a mountain with a panoramic view of Los Angeles. As the sun began to set over the hills, brilliant shades of orange and pink blazed across the sky and I had an indescribable feeling that I tapped into something special. What was this community I had encountered, filled with such creative, brilliant people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came back as frequently as I could, driven by some deep impulse that what I experienced there was magic. I couldn’t quite define the feeling, but I knew I wanted more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, I got to know the place and its people in a more intimate way. Words are a poor substitute for what I experienced there, but it involved strange art performances, puppet shows,\u003ca href=\"https://slamgranderson.substack.com/p/zorthian-ranch-pizza-party\"> pizza parties\u003c/a> and surrealist dinners, costumes and music of all types, deep conversations, sleepovers with friends, staying up all night until the sunrise and a profound sense of love and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Tara said, it woke you up. You felt your humanity. You understood what it meant to really love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My experience is but a small fraction of what the Zorthian Ranch really was — and is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch has been around for nearly a century. It was founded by Jirayr Zorthian, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, who over the years developed a unique space that was both homestead and social scene. It became a magnet for bohemian artists in the ’50s and ’60s. It hosted countless parties, shows and performances, and over the years what happened to me — the discovery of magic within myself — happened to hundreds, if not thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Zorthian, a granddaughter of founder Jirayr Zorthian, at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. She lived on the ranch for eight years before moving away two years ago. The Eaton fire destroyed several structures as well as vegetation on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cliche is that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. But I think we did know. All of us who lived, visited and participated in the Ranch came away with a sense of how special it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of producing this non-narrated radio piece, I set out to capture that sense of specialness. And I knew that would be a challenge from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the 20 people who used to live here are now displaced. The community has scattered. Where previously I could simply show up and find several people to talk to, now I had to go about tracking them down to the various friend’s houses (and couches) where they were staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge was trying to wrap my arms around such a sprawling subject. I understood that ultimately, any attempt to tell the entire story of the Zorthian Ranch in a single piece would be doomed to failure. I myself had actually tried — and failed — before. Along with a colleague of mine, I set out to uncover the fate of The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training, which is the most enduring mystery of the Zorthian Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Jirayr Zorthian created his greatest artwork of all time — a true masterpiece — in the form of a 157-foot mural that was first installed at the Pentagon, then possibly shuffled around other military locations, before it was lost forever.[aside postID=news_12029129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/0A4A3428-1020x680.jpg']The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. And unfortunately, that kind of magic is not available to very many people these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastating fire that destroyed Altadena — and most of the Zorthian Ranch — exposed the fragility of so many broken systems in the Western way of life: the lack of affordable housing or any real social safety net, the way we’ve ravaged our ecosystem and ignored Indigenous knowledge around fire, the lack of access to green open spaces for city dwellers and the difficulty of sourcing local and sustainable food products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193000280-1020x653.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among the most important gaps in our current way of life is cultivating places to gather together, with the people you love, and experience what it is to be a human in communion with other humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that way, the Zorthian Ranch is more than a place in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026093/they-want-to-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire-but-first-comes-the-struggle-to-survive\">Altadena\u003c/a>. It’s an idea. And ideas cannot be destroyed by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My hope is that by sharing stories about places like the Ranch, we keep alive the idea that cultivating spaces for community to gather together in love and creativity is among the most important things we will ever do in our lifetimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m excited to watch how the Zorthians choose to rebuild. If you want to help contribute to those efforts, you can\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/Support-zorthian-ranch\"> support their fundraiser\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this place that transformed the lives of so many people is undergoing a great transformation of its own. Jirayr’s son Alan is steadfast in his commitment to rebuilding. Cleanup efforts are ongoing, and some residents have already begun to move back to the Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the past is any indication, the future of the Zorthian Ranch will be something special to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came back as frequently as I could, driven by some deep impulse that what I experienced there was magic. I couldn’t quite define the feeling, but I knew I wanted more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, I got to know the place and its people in a more intimate way. Words are a poor substitute for what I experienced there, but it involved strange art performances, puppet shows,\u003ca href=\"https://slamgranderson.substack.com/p/zorthian-ranch-pizza-party\"> pizza parties\u003c/a> and surrealist dinners, costumes and music of all types, deep conversations, sleepovers with friends, staying up all night until the sunrise and a profound sense of love and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Tara said, it woke you up. You felt your humanity. You understood what it meant to really love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My experience is but a small fraction of what the Zorthian Ranch really was — and is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch has been around for nearly a century. It was founded by Jirayr Zorthian, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, who over the years developed a unique space that was both homestead and social scene. It became a magnet for bohemian artists in the ’50s and ’60s. It hosted countless parties, shows and performances, and over the years what happened to me — the discovery of magic within myself — happened to hundreds, if not thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Zorthian, a granddaughter of founder Jirayr Zorthian, at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. She lived on the ranch for eight years before moving away two years ago. The Eaton fire destroyed several structures as well as vegetation on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cliche is that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. But I think we did know. All of us who lived, visited and participated in the Ranch came away with a sense of how special it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of producing this non-narrated radio piece, I set out to capture that sense of specialness. And I knew that would be a challenge from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the 20 people who used to live here are now displaced. The community has scattered. Where previously I could simply show up and find several people to talk to, now I had to go about tracking them down to the various friend’s houses (and couches) where they were staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge was trying to wrap my arms around such a sprawling subject. I understood that ultimately, any attempt to tell the entire story of the Zorthian Ranch in a single piece would be doomed to failure. I myself had actually tried — and failed — before. Along with a colleague of mine, I set out to uncover the fate of The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training, which is the most enduring mystery of the Zorthian Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Jirayr Zorthian created his greatest artwork of all time — a true masterpiece — in the form of a 157-foot mural that was first installed at the Pentagon, then possibly shuffled around other military locations, before it was lost forever.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. And unfortunately, that kind of magic is not available to very many people these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastating fire that destroyed Altadena — and most of the Zorthian Ranch — exposed the fragility of so many broken systems in the Western way of life: the lack of affordable housing or any real social safety net, the way we’ve ravaged our ecosystem and ignored Indigenous knowledge around fire, the lack of access to green open spaces for city dwellers and the difficulty of sourcing local and sustainable food products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A few weeks after the fire, Justin Murphy counted off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">houses that burned\u003c/a> on this cul-de-sac in northeast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026093/they-want-to-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire-but-first-comes-the-struggle-to-survive\">Altadena\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That one down there was the first,” he said, pointing to the end of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a century, eight homes stood on this quiet, secluded street with panoramic views of the San Gabriel Mountains. Now, there are just two: A neighbor’s place across the street and the one belonging to Murphy’s 93-year-old mother, Jane Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wee hours of Jan. 8, and as flames bore down on the neighborhood, Murphy whisked his mom to safety and then raced back up the house. He and his brother had stayed up all night battling\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025125/advice-to-those-recovering-from-wildfire-from-northern-californians-whove-been-there\"> the disastrous Eaton fire\u003c/a> with hoses, buckets and sprinklers — ultimately saving the home their parents bought 65 years ago but losing a detached garage and study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Murphy said her sons’ action that night not only saved her home, but others as well. Had her house and another across the street caught fire, they likely would have ignited others downwind of the cul-de-sac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00018-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old street signs scorched by the fires, photographed at the Murphy home in Altadena, California, on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He saved their ass,” she said, explaining that Justin also created a text chain to deliver updates to over a dozen evacuated neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting upon that night while sitting in the family home’s spacious living room, Murphy said he was still processing the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really do believe that by what we did, we didn’t give the fire a foothold in this house,” he said. “And maybe on some level, I wasn’t afraid of the fire. I was willing to take the risk, to protect what’s ours and protect this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some combination of courage, adrenaline and profound attachment to their community kept Murphy and a handful of other holdouts on the ground— even as the fire immolated scores of homes around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three miles away, in southwest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022718/altadena-rallies-to-rebuild-burned-spiritual-centers\">Altadena\u003c/a>, retired U.S. Army Special Forces medic Tom Salinas made the same risk calculation the night of the fire as flames bore down on his neighborhood. His partner, Anna, insisted he evacuate. She said the house wasn’t worth the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/0A4A3428-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not it,” he said, as he tinkered with his vintage Volkswagen bug. “I said, ‘In the military, if you have a combatant injured in front of you as a medic, I can’t watch you die. I don’t have a choice,’” he told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘There’s two types of people: the ones that run to the fire, and the ones that run from the fire,” Salinas said. “I’m forever going to be the idiot that runs to the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Salinas’ neighborhood, the homes tend to be smaller, and income levels a bit lower. It’s where Black and Latino homeowners were able to build up generational wealth at a time when they were denied mortgages in other parts of greater Los Angeles. But none of that mattered to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only protective measure Salinas took while battling the fire was to pull his T-shirt collar up over his mouth and nose. No mask, no goggles, no protective clothing. An avid motorcyclist and thrill seeker, he admits being an adrenaline junkie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love being scared,” he said. “I can go to Magic Mountain [Six Flags] on any ride, any theme park. I enjoy being flipped upside down and turned around. It’s just the greatest feeling,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Salinas, photographed at his home in Altadena, California, on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For two weeks, strict military-enforced security checkpoints blocked anybody trying to get into Altadena. Police also arrested suspected looters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy was detained a few times himself while out on the street. He could have left anytime he wanted, but crossing the checkpoint meant not being able to return. At some checkpoints, though, police would allow supplies to be handed off to non-evacuees. That’s how he was able to get hold of a few essential items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived through the fire, and I lived after the fire, and I lived kind of as an outcast, really,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were going to their jobs, going to the market, doing their thing, and it was difficult not to be able to do that,” Murphy said. “But in a weird way, it made me look at myself and do some self-review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the fire was out, Salinas stayed busy and kept a routine. He cleaned up ash and soot as best he could, collected all the busted tree limbs and shingles that blew into people’s yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026093 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_6303-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made friends with a few other neighbors who also refused to leave. That included Carlos, a guy Tom had never spoken to but was sure was a neighborhood troublemaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The (guy) that I thought was a cold-hearted, mean thug turned out to be this wonderful guy,” Salinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To his surprise, the fire brought neighbors who barely knew each other together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Him and I were inseparable because we’d been through the same thing. We ended up putting hoses together and putting out fires on the roofs and in bushes, all these houses up and down the street. We did as much as we could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas, Carlos and other neighbors also battled looters. With properties still on fire, thieves smashed into evacuated houses — including one right across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a chance to get to know all the neighbors,” Salinas said. “Carlos, Leandro, Martha— they’re like my family. Because I realized that I’m not in the fight alone, I didn’t have no fear,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00002-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Salinas, photographed at his home in Altadena, California along with his dog on March 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas wasn’t thrown by the fire, nor does he fret over the scores of properties all around him heaped with rubble laden with asbestos, lead and other toxins that can pose health risks. While the EPA has mostly completed\u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-completes-household-hazardous-materials-cleanup-response-los-angeles-wildfires\"> phase one\u003c/a> of debris removal in Altadena, the agency said dozens of properties are still considered too dangerous to enter and clear of toxic materials. Meanwhile, the removal of hard structural debris, phase two, is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exposure worries Murphy a bit, but he shares Salinas’ sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some people that are throwing out their mattresses because some smoke damage came into their house, and I guess I don’t live in that camp. I cleaned everything out. I washed all the curtains. I washed all the floors. I’m not letting that fear rule my mind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Murphy’s mother went right back home as soon as security checkpoints were lifted. She’s also resumed her daily two-mile walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am well known in the neighborhood,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A licensed therapist for about 50 years, Murphy continues to be someone her neighbors can lean on for some sense of normalcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193000280-1020x653.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of these people by their first names, many of whom have either lost their houses or can’t live in their houses because of the smoke,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a little prayer, and I will say that to myself as I go by people’s burned houses,” Murphy said. “I also greet people, they come up and hug me because they’re so happy to see me because I represent some stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because these holdouts have confronted the danger head-on doesn’t mean they’re unaffected by the trauma of losing so much of their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Murphys can’t look outside or walk down the street without seeing widespread destruction. The same goes for Salinas and his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Man, I know what it’s like, and I don’t want to see it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unflappable in front of the fire, Salinas stays away from the ruins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even go to a funeral. I don’t do well with grief in this world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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While, at times, Angel said, the agency’s mission has been weakened by lax enforcement, its vital public service needs to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They needed to improve, but they need to exist,” Angel said. “This is a life or death issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032974 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250325_EPAPROTESTS_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Fox attends a rally denouncing President Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on environmental laws and environmental justice programs in front of the USEPA’s Regional Headquarters in San Francisco on March 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate groups across the Bay Area have seen federal grants canceled or frozen over the last few months. Some told KQED they do not know the status of their funding because agency staffers have been ordered not to communicate with them. Others are blindly billing for their projects with no assurance that they will be reimbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, EPA officials terminated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\">$20 billion in climate grants\u003c/a> issued by the Biden administration. The money was meant to finance clean energy and environmental projects through a so-called green bank. 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