As a charred Los Angeles resurfaces from the infernal flames that engulfed the region last month, questions loom as to how residents will rebuild — and whether they should remake their neighborhoods as they were, or take the chance to make the city less vulnerable to the fires of the future.

With an estimated 17,000 structures burned in Eaton and Palisades fires — and ensuing economic losses estimated at more than $250 billion — reconstruction efforts will face monumental challenges from every angle: planning, permitting, supply chains, workforce and insurance.

State and local officials have been trying to unload some of the burden and streamline the process by minimizing bureaucracy where possible.

But experts remain skeptical as to just how quickly that construction should — or even could — occur, amid massive debris pileups and in neighborhoods that have become increasingly vulnerable to future wildfires.

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Technion Prof. Daniel Orenstein is quoted in this article.