Deadly wildfires around Los Angeles in January reduced thousands of acres to ash but a picture of a burnt cat that spread online is unrelated to the recent inferno. It dates to a wildfire that scorched parts of northern California in November 2018.

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.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in an update Thursday that 18 people remain missing after the Southern California wildfires. Overall, authorities received a total of 43 missing persons reports related to the Eaton and Palisades fires. Of those, 12 were located safe.