Our rebuild hell: LA fire victims reveal nightmare scenario of red tape and financial ruin – one year on

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Crashing home prices, stalled rebuilds and nightmare insurance red tape have been laid bare by homeowners whose houses were destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires — with some now staring down the barrel of multimillion-dollar losses. The homeowners have detailed they how the lost millions of dollars in fires that left large swathes of the Palisades and Altadena looking like “post-war Hiroshima”. Single mother of three Jacqueline Chernov lost both her home in Huntington Palisades and an