By Kevin Baxter
Staff WriterFollow
Jan. 15, 2025 6:59 AM PT
Ali Riley will never forget her wedding day. And the reasons for that have nothing to do with her vows.
Five days before Riley was to be married in Ventura County, her parents were evacuated from her childhood home in Pacific Palisades. When she should have been double-checking details with the caterer and the florist, she was monitoring the progress of a monster blaze that moved from the horizon to her old neighborhood in half an afternoon.