Martin Castillo set his hands on the rubber handles of a ground drill. He was hunched over, his blue uniform slick with sweat. The roar of the drill throbbed against his eardrums as it dug into the ...

A student moves out of a dormitory at UCLA because of concerns over the Palisades fire on Sunday. (Carlin Stiehl/For the Times) ...

In July, Brewer was loitering outside of UCLA housing before eventually knocking on one of the apartment doors, according to a July 10 news release from the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.

UCLA Housing staff coordinated traffic as a long ... said she originally did not realize the fire was a pressing matter until she looked outside her dorm window and saw the flames herself.