Has Hollywood Already Forgotten the Fires?

Los Angeles is, at least apocryphally, a city without memory. Angelenos have been derided for our lack of history, our surface-level lack of interest in things that happened more than 20 minutes ago or 20 miles away, for almost as long as L.A. has existed. Not for nothing did the historian Norman M. Klein once title a book about Los Angeles The History of Forgetting.