Business owners in Altadena hope to see the diverse community that their organizations thrived in rise from the ashes.

When flames bellowed up out of Eaton Canyon on the evening of Jan. 7, west Altadena did not, at first glance, seem to pose the most urgent challenge for evacuations. So why did it take so long for evacuation alerts to go out?

The Church of Christ in Altadena, with its humble storefront on Fair Oaks Avenue, was a sister church to the Pasadena house of worship and was destroyed in the Eaton fire.