Along the broad Temescal Canyon Road that connects Sunset Boulevard to the beach, the Pierson Playhouse is gone, burned except for a few metal steel beams. The Palisades high school still has its main buildings, but fire trucks were working on extinguishing fires still burning in a building near the football field.

LAFD firefighter Cpt. Robert Hawkins and his crew monitored a burning garage to make sure the fire wouldn't spread to the house next to it.

Residents of Pacific Palisades were able to return home briefly on Thursday after the deadly wildfires devastated the tight-knit coastal community.

The Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthiest communities in the U.S., is experiencing the worst fire in its history.

A Pacific Palisades resident returned to his mobile home on Jan. 8 to find only rubble and burnt out cars.

I was sure the house my family loved was the last one I’d ever live in. Now I can hardly convince myself that it’s gone forever.

Amid the wide destruction of the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, there were symbols of hope. One of them was a temple still standing amid the destruction. It's a place that NBC News' Jacob Soboroff knows well.