Weeks after the Palisades Fire, Mike Voelkel was finally allowed onto the Palisades Charter High School baseball field that was somehow spared by a blaze that had torn across 23,000 acres and 37 square miles, burning down more than 6,800 structures, including much of the neighborhood around the school.
A diamond amongst the rubble of the worst fire in Los Angeles history, a diamond in the rough, but a diamond nonetheless.
“The grass was so tall I certainly had to actually stare out on the