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.”