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This week’s deadly wildfires in Southern California have destroyed or damaged thousands of structures, including many landmarks that hold a spot in cinematic and cultural history. The Los Angeles area blazes, which authorities say have killed at least five people, have leveled homes, businesses and schools at an alarming speed. It’s one of several Los Angeles County schools that sustained “significant” fire damage, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. California State Parks“California State Parks mourns the loss of these treasured natural and cultural resources, and our hearts go out to everyone impacted by the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area,” State Parks Director Armando Quintero said. Topanga Ranch Motel: Also owned by the state parks department, the Topanga Ranch Motel was constructed in 1929 by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst.

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The Santa Ana winds, as they’re known, are a naturally occurring phenomenon made possible by the geography in the western U.S. “And boy, when a big Santa Ana hits, that’s when the nightmare for our firefighters really kicks in.”The Santa Ana winds form in a western area of the country known as the Great Basin, which includes Nevada and part of Utah. By the time they reach Southern California, the winds can move at a speed of 40 mph, with gusts that are even stronger. “That targeted the strongest winds for the foothills around Eaton Canyon.”Tripti Bhattacharya, an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Syracuse University, said her models don’t predict that Santa Ana winds will get worse this century. “So that fire season is more likely to coincide with Santa Ana winds in the future.”

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Los Angeles County public officials are vowing to crack down on people allegedly stealing from homes as devastating wildfires rip through the region, insisting that lawbreakers will face consequences. “In the midst of the emergency, we have all seen individuals who are targeting vulnerable communities by burglarizing and looting homes. This is simply unacceptable,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger told reporters Thursday. Barger then addressed looters directly: “I promise you, you will be held accountable. Shame on those who are preying on our residents during this time of crisis.”Residents ride their motorbike past a burning liquor store during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, Calif., on Wednesday.

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President Biden and others will honor former President Jimmy Carter at a funeral in Washington, D.C. And the end of fact-checking on Meta suggests a new era of social media is upon us. Today’s forecastAlthough the ferocious winds that have fueled the fires were expected to gradually diminish overnight, dangerous conditions are expected to persist. President-elect Donald Trump is blaming President Biden and California Gov. Carter has laid in state at the U.S. Capitol since Tuesday and is in the Washington National Cathedral for today’s funeral service. After the funeral, Carter will make his final journey to his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he will be buried alongside his wife, Rosalynn Carter.

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Fire forecast: Critical fire weather is forecast to last across parts of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties through Friday. The Pasadena Water and Power system may be compromised by “debris and elevated turbidity,” according to the city. Air quality: The excessive smoke and ash has caused air quality to plummet to ‘hazardous’ levels across parts of the region and air quality alerts are in place in many areas, including Downtown Los Angeles. Altadena has a current air quality index of 426, which exceeds the worst air quality seen in New Delhi, a city notorious for air pollution, over the last two days. Learning disrupted: All schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District will be closed today.

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☆ California wildfires: What we know about L.A. fire evacuations, maps, what caused it, who is affected and more
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted Tuesday and roared across the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least five people. The Palisades Fire erupted Tuesday morning in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles County neighborhood east of Malibu, as a brush fire. erupted Tuesday morning in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles County neighborhood east of Malibu, as a brush fire. The Sunset Fire sparked in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles near Runyon Canyon shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, prompting mandatory evacuations. There have been a significant number of injuries in the Eaton Fire, according to Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.

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The Summary Demand for water to fight the Palisades Fire led the community’s water tanks to temporarily dry up. Immense demand for water to fight the fast-moving Palisades Fire led all three of the community’s water tanks — and some fire hydrants — to temporarily dry up in the last 24 hours or so. Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said the Palisades water system sustained four times its usual demand for 15 hours straight. According to the water department, crews trying to reroute water at one point had to evacuate because of the fire’s intensity. “We have three large water tanks, about a million gallons each.

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☆ Los Angeles wildfires are still burning across the area — ripping through homes and lives: Latest updates
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Wildfires are rampaging across Los Angeles County this week. Wildfires continue to rage in Los Angeles — and could become the costliest blazes in US history, according to a JPMorgan research note. The Los Angeles downtown skyline in the distance was surrounded by smoke and haze on Thursday morning. AP Photo/Damian DovarganesMeanwhile, 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of looting in areas affected by the fires, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at Thursday's briefing. ADHurst FireThe Hurst fire burned in the hills above the Sylmar area of Los Angeles on Wednesday.

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☆ Photos from the LA fires show how houses catch on fire — and how homeowners can protect their property
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Los Angeles firestorms show how quickly wildfires can turn into urban fires. Understanding how a brush fire becomes urban can help homeowners prepare their properties for future fires. Related VideoStrong winds blow embers as the Palisades Fire burns homes on January 8. David Swanson/AFP/Getty ImagesIf those little fires are close enough to the house, the flames can start to overtake the building. ADHowever, photos from the aftermath so far in the Palisades don't seem to show surviving houses unique amid burned blocks.

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“Now they’re over a million, $2 million.”Mr. Jackson said Mr. Shaw’s father had taken meticulous care of the family’s home. “He always kept his house up,” Mr. Jackson, recalling how he and the elder Mr. Shaw bonded over home maintenance. Mr. Shaw, who Mr. Jackson said never married, drove a bloodmobile and later made contract deliveries. Mr. Nickerson came from a multigenerational California family, his son, Eric Nickerson, said. “The fire that came through this canyon wiped out the entire Altadena community that’s been standing for 50, 60 years,” said Mr. Jackson.

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An evacuation and shelter center at the Westwood Recreation Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The drive was short but eerie, Ms. Duffy said, because the power and all the lights were out. Around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a neighbor warned Ms. Cowles and her husband of a fire in the hills above the community. Ms. Cowles left a sheet of uncooked peanut butter cookies on the counter in her haste to flee. Ms. Cowles has lived in Los Angeles for about 50 years, she said, but has never had to evacuate before.

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☆ The Getty Villa survived LA's firestorms while everything around it burned, revealing a key lesson for homeowners
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Jessica Orwig | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some buildings have survived, though, like the Getty Villa art museum in Pacific Palisades. The Villa is not your average home, but homeowners can learn from what Getty staff have been doing all year. As the Palisades and Eaton fires burned through thousands of acres on Tuesday, razing nearly 2,000 homes, the iconic Getty Villa remained standing with minor damage. The Getty Villa is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which includes the largest endowment of any museum in the world, estimated at more than $8 billion in 2023. Related VideoA trail of flames from the Palisades fire leads to the Getty Villa.

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☆ Rams-Vikings wild-card game moved to State Farm Stadium in Arizona due to L.A. wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( The Athletic Nfl Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

By Jourdan Rodrigue, Alex Andrejev and Rebecca TauberThe wild-card playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings on Monday will be moved from SoFi Stadium to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., after multiple wildfires ravaged the Los Angeles County area this week, the NFL announced Thursday. GO DEEPER LA wildfires force Lakers postponement as deadly blazes drive evacuationsOther Los Angeles sports teams, including the Chargers, adjusted their schedules due to the impact of the fires. ESPN was also forced to change its programming on Wednesday because a production facility in Los Angeles was closed. pic.twitter.com/mvJuBwPo9g — Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 9, 2025Carlos Vela, who played for Los Angeles FC, lost his home due to the fire, his wife announced on her Instagram story. Meanwhile, the historic Rose Bowl Stadium, located near the Eaton Fire, is in the range of evacuation orders issued.

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☆ The horror of the Los Angeles firestorms is hard to grasp, but emerging photos give a sense of the destruction
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The Palisades and Eaton fires are devastating parts of Los Angeles, destroying entire communities. Photos offer a glimpse at the scale of destruction that occurred in just a day and a half. ADThe Palisades and Eaton fires are ripping through parts of Los Angeles and causing mass destruction. Firefighters are still struggling to contain the blazes, which grew rapidly and have continued for more than 24 hours. It's difficult to grasp the scale of these fires, but emerging photos paint a grim picture.

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☆ Los Angeles Wildfires Will Make a Serious Housing Shortage Worse
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Danielle Kaye | Conor Dougherty | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Each of the homes burned in the Los Angeles fires is its own individual calamity. For the time being, evacuees are holing up in public shelters in Los Angeles County, with friends or family members or in hotels. That will not be easy in a metro area that, as of 2022, already had a shortage of about 337,000 homes, according to data from Zillow. The number of homes on the market in Los Angeles was 26 percent below prepandemic norms as of December, according to Zillow. Pasadena, which is battling the Eaton fire, has already lost hundreds of homes.

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Los Angeles CNN —Acrid smoke shrouded the sky in Altadena, California, as Gail watched flames from the raging Eaton Fire swallow her next-door neighbor’s house. The wildfires in Los Angeles County together consumed thousands of acres in just over a day, with the blaze near Altadena quadrupling in size in a matter of hours Wednesday. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said several of his employees have lost their homes to the flames. “This is a tragic time in our history here in Los Angeles, but a time when we’re really tested and see who we really are,” Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news conference Wednesday morning. Video Ad Feedback Timelapse video shows Los Angeles wildfire spread rapidly 00:45 - Source: CNNHarsh winds have made the fires unpredictable.

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☆ Opinion | Disasters Have Made L.A. What It Is
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( David L. Ulin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Tuesday, as a series of aggressive wildfires began ripping through Southern California, I found myself having an unlikely reaction: the desire to be there. I mean this not as a thrill seeker or fire follower but rather as someone who wanted to go home. I have lived in Los Angeles since 1991, when I moved from New York. My wife and I raised our family in Los Angeles, and in June my father entered an assisted-living facility in Pasadena, not far from what is now the Eaton fire evacuation zone. This is my father’s first go-round as a California resident, and he is right to be afraid.

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☆ Los Angeles struggles to contain disaster as 5th wildfire breaks out in the Hollywood Hills
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The longest-burning of the now five active fires in Los Angeles County, the Palisades Fire, has burned over 15,000 acres, official said. Chief of Los Angeles Fire Department Kristin Crowley said that fire was under control as of Wednesday evening. Tourist landmarks close as smoke chokes LAThe Los Angeles area is a huge tourist draw, attracting nearly 50 million visitors a year. The fires forced some Los Angeles-area landmarks to close, including the Hollywood sign, the Los Angeles Zoo, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal CityWalk, and the Griffith Observatory. ADEven miles from the fires in South Los Angeles, smoke reduced visibility to just one block, officials said.

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Wildfires have broken out in Los Angeles and are raging through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Wildfires in Los Angeles are tearing through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, home to A-list actors, including Ben Affleck — who bought his $20.5 million mansion there in July. ADThe fire started on Tuesday in the Pacific Palisades before spreading west toward the Malibu stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway. AD"The Pacific Palisades is a resilient community of amazing people and we know in time it will rise again. "Honestly, I'm in shock and feeling numb for all so many have lost, including my family," she wrote in an Instagram post.

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Jane Brown watched on television Tuesday night as a large condominium complex in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles went up in flames. It was her 92-year-old mother’s home. And experts warn that the fires have put many residents, particularly those like Mrs. Kameny who have lost their homes, at risk of deep, long-lasting mental health ramifications. Center for Public Health and Disasters. Studies suggest that even those who do not lose homes can have anxiety, depression or psychological distress for years after a wildfire dies out.

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Onlookers taking photos and videos of the Palisades fire as it burned through the Topanga Canyon, northwest of Los Angeles, on Thursday. At least five major fires were burning across the Los Angeles area, encircling the city in a ring of blazes. “It is safe to say that the Palisades fire is one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles,” she said. “This fire was rapidly and aggressively attacked by using coordinated air and ground suppression efforts.”Lidia fireA fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in a rural, mountainous part of Los Angeles County, about 50 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Hurst fireThe Hurst fire erupted on Tuesday in Sylmar, in the northernmost part of the San Fernando Valley and about 25 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

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“Within minutes, 10 to 20 minutes, there wasn’t one fire. There were multiple fires, as embers were sort of crisscrossing the area,” Hurwitz told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing on Wednesday. Hurwitz packed up a few more possessions, including clothes, a laptop, and the family’s pets: a rescue dog, Lily, and a hamster, Wolfy. Our lives, our pets’ lives, our kids’ lives are what were paramount. Mallory Sobel, who lives in the Pacific Palisades Highlands neighborhood, said she left with just a bag of emergency supplies and her family’s passports.

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Two other fires have erupted in Los Angeles County: The 500-acre strong Hurst fire north of San Fernando, and the Eaton fire in Altadena, which has grown to 1,000 acres in a matter of hours. • No containment expected: There is no possibility of containing the Los Angeles fires tonight, and firefighters are focusing on saving lives instead, said David Acuna, the CAL Fire spokesperson. • Firefighter warnings: Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. The Los Angeles Fire Department is also asking off-duty members to call in to help battle the blaze. • Schools close: Five schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will close on Wednesday, and classes are moving online.

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☆ Billy Crystal, Ricki Lake and more celebrities impacted by ongoing Los Angeles wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —As at least four wildfires rage around Los Angeles, numerous members of the Hollywood community have been impacted, including Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore, Anna Faris and Ricki Lake. In statement to CNN on Wednesday, Crystal said, “Words cannot describe the enormity of the devastation we are witnessing and experiencing. Lake added that she is grieving the “immeasurable” loss of her home, where she and her husband wed three years ago. Our favorite restaurants, leveled,” Moore wrote on her Instagram page Wednesday. It is the most destructive to ever occur in Los Angeles County, according to CalFire data.

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