Over 23,000 acres in the Palisades alone were scarred. "What made it so sad is this was a community that was lost," Meika Mashack said. "Like where their kids go play basketball, where people ...

Mashack prioritizes his team over himself ... is now an inspector for the Los Angeles Fire Department. His mother Meika ran track at UNLV, graduated from Cal and has been a physical, occupational ...