As Los Angeles recovers from its devastating wildfires, environmental engineers, urban planners and natural disaster experts are casting forward with visions of what could come next for neighborhoods that have been reduced to ash and rubble.

Neighbors are asked to work together to submit their Right of Entry forms in batches so Army Corps. of Engineers crews can tackle debris cleanup in clusters, rather than scatter resources one property at a time.

Though many Los Angeles-area parks and museums closed because of air quality or other concerns, several have reopened, including Griffith Park, the L.A. Zoo and Autry Museum of the American West.