Inside the L.A. Charity That’s Helping Musicians Who Lost Their Instruments in the Wildfires

When the Eaton Fire first swept across Altadena, California, in January, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and ash, Brandon Jay figured his house, a few blocks south of Altadena Drive, would survive. He was more concerned about damage from the violent winds than from fire. “We’re used to fires in the mountains,” says Jay, a music composer and drummer who, with his wife, Gwendolyn Sanford, has scored TV shows like Orange Is the New Black and Weeds. “It just happens.”