When fire victims return to find nothing but charred wreckage, many assume their irreplaceable belongings perished. Jeff Levy ...

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

One week after the Palisades Fire rushed down a mountainside ... Nordskog said. Using magnets, metal detectors and magnifying lenses, they sift for tiny objects — like fragments of molten ...