Wildfires are not uncommon around the nonprofit Nature Friends retreat center in Sierra Madre, California. One blaze came within 100 yards of the clubhouse in 2008. For a century, the Bavarian-styled ...

The Eaton fire erased a century-old Sierra Madre lodge in January, but not the resolve of its members who held their signature Oktoberfest on Saturday. The rubble cleared and a stage built over the ...