Retired trucker Ed Cridland lived in his modest 111-year-old Altadena home from birth until his death. “His life began and ended right there,” a close friend said.

Pullem, a retired nurse who served in the Korean War, said he was inside his house on Jan. 7 when the Eaton Fire swept into his neighborhood, leveling home after home. When he opened his front ...

Ed Cridland, who was killed in the Jan. 7 Eaton fire, is shown playing the guitar as a soldier during the Korean War in 1953. (Courtesy of Dennis Chapman) After his discharge from the military as ...