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El Sereno is home to the Clark family, and is shown to be relatively calm and quiet, though some of its inhabitants are suffering from an unknown disease.
The overall tranquility of El Sereno is shattered when an undead man attacks and kills his neighbors, who were previously celebrating a birthday party.
El Sereno is one of the many neighborhoods caught in a rolling blackout as chaos envelops the streets of downtown Los Angeles. More and more people die and reanimate throughout the neighborhood. The next day, the California National Guard enters the city, setting up a forward operating base in the neighborhood. An out-of-control plane flies overhead.
The National Guard has converted the neighborhood into a safe-zone known as "India," one of thirteen military safe-zones in the Los Angeles Basin. The army clears the surrounding area of infected and provides rations and limited electricity to the civilians inside the safe zone. Despite reassurance by the military, there is unrest in the community.
Unbeknownst to the civilians within El Sereno, the military plans to initiate "Operation Cobalt," a tactical withdrawal of all troops from the Los Angeles Basin, during which all remaining non-infected civilians will be terminated. As the National Guard prepares to pull out, soldiers ransack homes throughout the neighborhood as unsuspecting civilians try to go about their regular business.
Late at night, the Clark, Manawa, and Salazar families get ready to leave in search of the military compound where Nick, Liza, and Griselda are being held. After Travis persuades Daniel to allow Adams to join them on the journey, the group abandon the neighborhood. The ultimate fate of the safe-zone is left ambiguous, although it was presumably bombed and destroyed by the military along with the rest of Los Angeles.