Edwin Castro is buying lots damaged in the LA wildfires

When Edwin Castro stepped out of the shadows as the winner of the largest Powerball jackpot in US history, he stayed mostly quiet — letting his new multimillion-dollar homes and collection of vintage Porsches do the talking.

But in the wildfire-ravaged hills of Altadena, California, the quiet didn’t last.

Castro, who won a record $2 billion Powerball jackpot, has spent roughly $10 million buying up 15 fire-scorched properties in his hometown of Altadena, with plans to rebuild homes where thousands once stood before January’s wildfires devastated the foothill community.

“This is for a family that wants to move in,” Castro told the Wall Street Journal on a recent walk through one of the neighborhoods reduced to ash. “Those are the people that need to be looked out for right now.”