Steve Lopez: Bel-Air fire displays L.A.'s extremes of wealth and misery
by Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
Dec 15, 2017
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Sunbaked and wind-battered Los Angeles, blessed and burdened city of extremes, is home to those with everything and those with nothing.
Last week, the two worlds intersected when a cooking fire at a homeless encampment destroyed six homes and damaged a dozen others in Bel-Air, where affluent residents complain now and then about the scale of colossal estates that dwarf their own mansions.
There has to be meaning in this, or it wouldn't play so much like a parable.
Was it a warning, a reckoning, a
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