ashes

The firestorms engulfed 59 square miles of Southern California — more than twice the size of Manhattan — transforming entire city blocks in Altadena and Pacific Palisades into corridors of ashes, twisted metal and skeletal trees.

"He's come back and returned, rising from the ashes, the Jamaican phoenix."

Finding those lost panels from Lloyd was proof enough to believe that, even after tragedy and years of rebuilding, there’s still beauty worth sifting through the ashes for.

Among their more disturbing finds: A box containing human ashes, a gun, dead dogs.

The company would cremate the parts of his body that weren't used and return his ashes free of charge.