On one side of the street lie the ashes of ruined houses, lost to the huge blazes that defeated Los Angeles firefighters when hydrants ran dry.
On the other side, a small village of shops is still intact, watched over by tanker trucks and an army of private firemen.
More than a week after enormous blazes spread unchecked through swaths of America's second-largest metropolis, questions are being asked about how some of the city's superrich seem to have survived almost unscathed.
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