Jun Li and Robert Lujan receive a certificate of occupancy in their newly rebuilt home on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 in Pasadena. The Lujans home is the first single family residence in the Eaton fire burn area to receive the certificate. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

It was a day that many didn’t think would come before Christmas.

Pasadena resident Jun Lujan Tuesday, on Nov. 25, became the first homeowner in the Eaton fire burn area — which spans from Pasadena to Altadena to Sierra Madre — to receive a certificate of occupancy for a rebuilt primary home post-fire.

In June, Lujan, a 20-year resident of Riviera Drive in Hastings Ranch, received Pasadena’s first two rebuilding permits post-fire to reconstruct her home and an attached accessory dwelling unit

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