The stone and stucco estate sustained some damage during the blaze, but remained relatively untouched.

Water utilities in Altadena and Pacific Palisades are undertaking an arduous process of repressurizing their underground pipelines, testing for contaminants and attempting to flush them out.

The backstory: The tiles were popular during Altadena’s architectural boom of the 1910s and ‘20s, “and were a defining ...