Residents’ uncertainty – rebuild or relocate?

Yard signs in the front of decimated homes in Altadena, Califonia. The realities of construction costs and insurance payments after the Eaton fire have set in for residents. — Mark Abramson/The New York Times

WHEN Dan Grebow returned to Altadena, California, to sift through the ashes of his family’s home, he was determined to rebuild.

It had been his home for 15 years, a place where he and his wife Carmina had raised three children.