The modest bungalow that had been in their family for more than half a century was gone.

The couple had just moved from their modest fixer-upper in Altadena’s Janes Village to their dream home in architect Gregory Ain’s Park Planned homes, when the Eaton fire roared to life.

The San Gabriel Valley is home to many of the industry’s more modest or middle-class workers, who were already financially harmed by the production slowdown and relocation of shoots to other states or countries.

Matsuura said he wouldn’t leave, couldn’t leave, because of everything that his modest home on New York Avenue meant.

Yormark warns that even that modest target will be hard to hit.