From The New York Times:
Three of the people who died in the fires raging around Los Angeles lived within a few blocks of each other, in a close-knit neighborhood in the eastern portion of the county.
The area abutted Angeles National Forest, and local residents said many people had lived there for generations, handing down homes they bought decades ago and that they had meticulously kept up. One of the victims was found near a garden hose he had been using to spray his house as the fire bore down. At least 10 people in total died across Los Angeles County, according to officials. Among them, three people died in the Eaton fire in the east, and two in the Palisades fire near the coast. On Thursday, the county sheriff, Robert G. Luna, said that officials were investigating neighborhoods where hundreds of homes burned, “hopefully not discover too many fatalities. That’s our prayer.”