<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/spring-2025/out-ashes-eaton-fire.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Out of the Ashes of the Eaton Fire</title><excerpt>Ashley Siebels ’26 dreams at least once a week about the only home she’s ever known. “I’m in the house, but I know it’s not there,” she says. “It’s a weird in-between place.” Just days after she returned to campus in January, the Eaton Fire engulfed her west Altadena neighborhood in Southern California, leaving it a desolate, unrecognizable landscape.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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