Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district.
Altadena is an unincorporated area, and census-designated place in the San Gabriel Valley and the Verdugos regions of Los Angeles County, California. Directly north of Pasadena, it is located approximately 14 miles (23 km) from Downtown Los Angeles. Its population was 42,846 at the 2020 census, up slightly from a 2010 figure of 42,777. In early 2025, the community was severely impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Theosophical Society (Pasadena) is a branch of Theosophy based in Pasadena, California. It claims to be the successor organization to the original Theosophical Society founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others in 1875 in New York City. It is the second largest Theosophical group in members and international reach after the Theosophical Society Adyar.
Located in Los Angeles County, California's San Gabriel Valley, the Boy Scouts of America's San Gabriel Valley Council (#40) was one of five councils serving Los Angeles County. It was headquartered in Pasadena.
Kinneloa Mesa is an unincorporated community located in Los Angeles County, California, United States, with a population of 1,070 as of 2000. Unlike Altadena, a larger unincorporated area nearby, Kinneloa Mesa is not an official census-designated place. The area was sometimes referred to as "unincorporated Pasadena", which it technically is not as that is not an official term and the area is not a part of Pasadena. Kinneloa Mesa is on the Los Angeles County list of unincorporated areas and street maps, including those of the Los Angeles County Assessor's office which recognize Kinneloa Mesa Road and Kinneloa Canyon Road as the area's two principal roads.
Christmas Tree Lane is a 0.7-mile (1.1 km) boulevard of deodar cedar trees in Altadena, California. The trees on the Lane, Santa Rosa Avenue, have been lighted annually as a Christmas Holiday display since 1920. The association that runs it claims it is "the oldest large-scale outdoor Christmas display in the world". Christmas Tree Lane was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the same year it was also designated as California Historical Landmark No. 990.
Eaton Canyon is a major canyon beginning at the Eaton Saddle near Mount Markham and San Gabriel Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest, United States. Its drainage flows into the Rio Hondo river and then into the Los Angeles River. It is named after Judge Benjamin S. Eaton, who lived in the Fair Oaks Ranch House in 1865 not far from Eaton Creek.
The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (PJTC) is a Conservative Jewish congregation, synagogue and community center located in Pasadena, California, United States. Its buildings were destroyed in the January 2025 Eaton Fire, and it is the only Conservative Jewish synagogue in the western San Gabriel Valley.
Scripps Hall, also known as the Pasadena Waldorf School, was a large American Craftsman or Arts and Crafts style house located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, in Altadena, California, United States. It was built in 1904 as the central feature of the Scripps Estate, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was badly damaged by the 2025 Eaton Fire, with the upper school at 209 East Mariposa Avenue completely destroyed.
The Andrew McNally House in Altadena, California was the home of Andrew McNally (1838–1904), co-founder and president of the Rand McNally publishing company. The Queen Anne Style house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It remained a private house, until it was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.
The International Banana Museum was a museum located in Mecca, California, dedicated to the banana. The one-room museum contained more than 20,000 items related to bananas. In 1999, the museum set a Guinness World Record as the largest museum devoted to a single fruit. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum stated it would close. As of August 2023, it remained closed.
The Kinneloa Fire was a destructive wildfire in Los Angeles County, Southern California in October 1993. The fire destroyed 196 buildings in the communities of Altadena, Kinneloa Mesa, and Sierra Madre in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, becoming at the time the twelfth-most destructive wildfire in California's history and one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County history. The fire caused a multitude of minor injuries, one direct fatality, and two indirect fatalities.
Altadena Town & Country Club was a private social club in Altadena, California. Established in 1910, it offers a variety of recreational and social amenities. The club is known for its historic clubhouse, scenic grounds, and a range of facilities including dining, golf, tennis, and swimming. In January 2025, the club was destroyed by the Eaton Fire.
The Eaton Fire is an active wildfire burning in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County in Southern California. It began on the evening of January 7, 2025, in Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains. As of January 8, 2025, at 10:36 a.m. PST, the fire had spread to approximately 14,117 acres (5,713 ha). It is one of several fires that were driven by an extremely powerful Santa Ana wind event, along with the larger Palisades Fire. As of January 14, 2025, it is the fifth deadliest fire in California history, having killed 17 people.
Altadena Community Church was a United Church of Christ church in Altadena, California, built by the architect Harry L. Pierce in 1947 in a Spanish Colonial Revival style. The church was a progressive Christian and open and affirming church and was the thirteenth church in the United Church of Christ that openly accepted LGBTQ people. It was destroyed by the Eaton Fire in January 2025.
Zorthian Ranch is a 48-acre artist colony (19 ha) in Altadena, California established in 1946 by Armenian-American artist Jirayr Zorthian. Described as a "masterpiece of outsider architecture", much of the property was destroyed in the Eaton Fire in January 2025.
Edgar McGregor is an American climate activist and meteorologist from Pasadena, California. He works for the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation as a recreation services leader. Starting in 2019, his long-term volunteer efforts to clean up Eaton Canyon and other public parks removed thousands of pounds of trash over several years. In 2023, McGregor began providing localized weather forecasts through social media and the Altadena Weather and Climate Facebook page. His warnings during the Eaton Fire in 2025 were credited with helping residents evacuate and avoid harm.
The Pauline Lowe Residence or Pauline Lowe House was a private home in Altadena, California, built in 1934, designed by Harwell Hamilton Harris. It was destroyed in the Eaton Fire in 2025.
The Theosophical Library Center was the public library located in Altadena since 1951 where it was housed in two historic buildings that burnt down during the 2025 Southern California wildfires. Theosophy is a body of philosophy seeks to understand the nature of universe and human experience. The library boasted a large public collection of books, art works, and artifacts relating to philosophy, science, and world's religions. It housed more than 40,000 texts on Western philosophy such as alchemy, mysticism, Masonry and scientific anomalies. The Eaton Fire that started on the evening of January 7 engulfed the Library entirely by the night and with it the world’s largest archive of Theosophical materials, the entire archive of the history of the Theosophical Society, unpublished letters from one of its founders, Madame Blavatsky, the Russian and American mystic, medium, and author.
Masjid Al-Taqwa, formerly the Altadena-Pasadena Dawah Center, was a mosque located in Altadena, California, United States. It began as a meeting place for members of the Nation of Islam in the 1970s but became a multicultural Islamic center in the following decades. It was the first mosque in the Pasadena-Altadena area. The building was destroyed by the Eaton Fire in early January 2025.
