Scores of Los Angeles residents returned Tuesday to wildfire-ravaged Pacific Palisades after officials began letting people drive back into the scorched community, the first opportunity most have had to carefully scour the sites of their former homes.

City officials allowed hundreds of residents displaced from the Palisades Fire to return to their homes to assess the aftermath of the deadly fires.

A line of vehicles stretching two or three miles snaked along PCH Tuesday as motorists inched into a parking lot for permits to drive into the burn zone.

Only residents with proper ID are allowed back into the Palisades Fire areas, with the question of how and if to rebuild a top concern.