He’s here at sunrise, for the 10th morning in a row, to get the latest updates on the fire and to assign his crew tasks for the day. When the Woolsey Fire tore through our hometown in 2019, it devastated our community and claimed over 1,
Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has revealed that her brother lost his Malibu home in the still-raging Palisades wildfires.
Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,448 acres after being active for 17 days. A crew of 2,420 firefighters has been working on site and they managed to contain 77% of the fire by Friday morning. The blaze's cause remains under investigation.
California officials will reopen some Palisades Fire evacuation zones, as law enforcement ramps up security to address looting.
Twenty-seven people have died across the Los Angeles area. Officials have said the true death toll isn’t known as the fires continue to burn.
The Petaluma-based Guy Fieri Foundation brought its large disaster relief trailer and smoker to the Cal Fire base camp in Malibu on Jan. 12 and began dinner service the next day, according to foundation spokesperson Irika Slavin. Slavin said the deployment theme was “serving those who protect and serve us.”
Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures, officials said, scorching more than 60 square miles and displacing tens of thousands of people.
The Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) crew in Los Angeles is still working hard to assist people affected by the fires in California as of Wednesday, Jan.
Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,448 acres after being active for 15 days. A crew of 3,274 firefighters has been working on site and they managed to contain 70% of the fire by Wednesday evening. The blaze's cause remains under investigation.
A fire north of a jail complex in Castaic has triggered evacuations in L.A. County, even as Southern California hopes for some rain to help with firefighting efforts.
Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure in areas where hydrants ran dry during the Palisades fire as 'leak prone,' 'severely undersized' and not having enough flow to support firefighters.