Heartbroken families, displaced business owners and jolted community leaders are facing the daunting challenge of rebuilding in areas gutted over the past week by the massive wildfires in Los Angeles County.

Drone video from the Palisades fire shows the extensive damage to homes along the shoreline. Brian van der Brug has been a staff photojournalist at the Los Angeles Times since 1997. Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times.

Heartbroken families, burned-out business owners and beleaguered Los Angeles leaders are beginning to ponder a monumental task: rebuilding what was lost in the Southern California wildfires.