Overview
- The 6 p.m. ceremony included a moment of silence for the 19 residents who died in January’s fire.
- More than 20,000 lights illuminated nearly a mile of deodar cedars along Santa Rosa Avenue near the burn scar.
- A Walt Disney Co. contribution funded thousands of additional lights, with the company supporting on-site festivities through a Voluntears Village.
- None of the 153 cedars were lost, though branches, light strings and several homes sustained damage during the blaze.
- LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger joined longtime volunteer families to flip the switch as organizers anticipated a crowd of roughly 15,000.