After the firefighters had moved on from neighborhoods reduced to rubble, officials from a different arm of local government arrived in white vans.
Investigators from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner sifted through razed homes in Altadena and Malibu on Thursday to recover the remains of at least five people killed in the Eaton and Palisades fires.
It could take anywhere from days to weeks to identify the bodies using dental records or DNA, said Dr. Odey Ukpo, Los Angeles County’s chief medical examiner…