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LA Times Today: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one’s urn — the search begins

LA Times Today: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one’s urn — the search begins

Watch L.A. Times Today at 8 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.

It is something no fire victim should have to face – digging through the charred remains of your burned out home, looking for the cremated remains of a loved one in the ashes of the destruction.

But now, archaeologists are using specially trained dogs to help find sniff out those cremated remains.

David Wharton recently watched how this remarkable process played out in Altadena.

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