Its website says its services will “enhance the insurability of properties” and “contribute to reduced claims.”

A slow, sad drive up the coast on Thursday revealed so much of that familiar territory reduced to ashen ruins.

And with their favorite stores, restaurants and gathering places reduced to smoldering debris, and good friends possibly departing, what will they be returning to?

“I just don’t understand how an entire town can be reduced to rubble,” Victoria Knapp, council chair, said from a Pomona hotel room that has since become home.

This line of inquiry follows animal model and stem cell studies in which efavirenz reduced the accumulation of both amyloid beta and tau.