Christian Science Monitor: On a chain-link fence along Route 39 hangs a homemade poster, peppered with hearts, thanking firefighters and police.
The sign, one of a handful scattered across town, salutes efforts to battle the San Gabriel Complex fire, twin blazes that had erupted on June 20 in the mountains of Angeles National Forest just to the north of the city. Within a day of igniting, the fire had burned through nearly 5,000 acres and forced hundreds to evacuate.
Nearly a week passed before the US Forest Service...