Along the broad Temescal Canyon Road that connects Sunset Boulevard to the beach, the Pierson Playhouse is gone, burned except for a few metal steel beams. The Palisades high school still has its main buildings, but fire trucks were working on extinguishing fires still burning in a building near the football field.

Though the Palisades Fire continues to rage, currently estimated to have consumed nearly 20,000 acres, destroyed over 5,000 structures and caused at least two deaths, residents are beginning to return to their fire-stricken neighborhoods.