LOS ANGELES — Pacific Palisades seemed like the perfect place to start over after Victoria Escalante lost everything she owned in the horrific 2018 Camp Fire in north-central California.
Her adult daughter was raising her family in the affluent Southern California community nestled between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Home to both celebrities and generations of families who fell in love with the quaint village, the Palisades encompassed everything Escalante, 69, wanted for her retirement: family, community and a sense of security.
Escalante never imagined that just seven years after she barely escaped with her life from a town called Paradise she would watch another neighborhood she called home turn to ash…