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San Bernardino County, Calif., Wind-Swept Fires Spark Memories in Laguna.

The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 26--Blackened chimneys no longer tower over ruins like gravestones. Modern mansions of steel and stone, glass and granite rise boldly in their stead.

The building across from the Presbyterian church no longer groans under the weight of good intentions. Where discarded clothes of every shape and size once poured in to aid victims, a Banana Republic store beckons.

There are the hillsides. No longer black and brittle, they grew thick and lush and menacing. There is the

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