How far back are you?

Behind that truck?

Yeah, just behind the truck.

On Friday morning, a long line of cars formed in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles,

a place that's been decimated over the past few days by raging wildfires.

In areas where the fires have burned out, authorities have started to let residents back in,

to assess the damage and to see what's left of their homes.

In one of the cars was a woman named Mariah Landfar.

Yeah, so we had a clue that our house was gone when we got this map from, like, Cal Fire or whatever.

But they didn't update this for so long.

So I was like holding out this.

So this is where our house is.

With her was a man from her neighborhood named Gavin Bates.

My wife didn't even want to come.

She's like, why are you going?

I feel like I just need to see up myself.

Totally.

I just need to see.

It's hard.

Yeah.

Getting into the neighborhood was a slow process.

Police were escorting people in, in part to protect against looters,

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