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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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“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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Maps: Tracking the Los Angeles WildfiresMajor fires, driven by fierce winds, have scorched the Los Angeles area, destroying homes and businesses and prompting thousands to flee as officials issued evacuation orders for many residential areas. Evacuation areas Evacuation order Evacuation warning Source: Cal Fire By The New York TimesThe largest is the Palisades fire. Before LOS ANGELES COUNTY Altadena Tonia Ave. Cul-de-sac Wapello St. As winds push wildfire smoke across the Los Angeles area, air quality has become hazardous in some places. “This is going to be devastating, a devastating loss, for all of Los Angeles,” said Traci Park, a Los Angeles city councilwoman whose district includes Pacific Palisades, the site of the biggest fire.

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When the Los Angeles riots erupted in 1992, Americans recoiled at the fires silhouetting the downtown skyline. Mansions were reduced to ash in Pacific Palisades, a West Los Angeles celebrity enclave. Credit... Philip Cheung for The New York TimesImage The toll of the fires was only beginning to take shape on Wednesday. Credit... Isadora Kosofsky for The New York TimesImage Southern California is critically dry, and its landscape is parched. “There’s a kind of mantra that when the wind blows, Los Angeles burns,” said D.J.

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☆ Wildfires burn out of control across Los Angeles area and kill 5 as thousands flee homes
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

With thousands of firefighters already attacking the flames, the Los Angeles Fire Department put out a plea for off-duty and out-of-state firefighters to help. The Palisades Fire burns near homes amid a powerful windstorm on January 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. An aircraft drops fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm, in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 7, 2025. Firefighters work at the site of a brush fire pushed by gusting Santa Ana winds on Jan. 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. "We are absolutely not out of danger yet," Los Angeles city Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley said.

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☆ 'Our entire town appears to be gone': 3 wildfire evacuees describe the devastation in Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Jane Zhang | Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

There's a reason that it's impossible to buy in and that Bill Hader lives on our street. We stayed at our friend's house until they lost power, then checked into the Beverly Hilton. It was like all of West Los Angeles had descended upon the hotel — it took 40 minutes just to pull into the driveway. On Tuesday afternoon, she and her significant other evacuated to her parents' home in another part of Los Angeles. My close friend Alisa lives up the street, so I called to check on her and her family.

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☆ NBA coaches Steve Kerr and JJ Redick say family members evacuated their homes amid Pacific Palisades wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( George Ramsay | Kevin Dotson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

It has destroyed at least 1,000 structures, making it the most destructive ever in Los Angeles County, according to Cal Fire. Our hearts are with those affected by the Palisades wildfires and the first responders protecting our community. “I just want to acknowledge and send thoughts and prayers to everyone in the Palisades right now,” Redick said. “It’s where I live, my family and my wife’s family, my wife’s twin sister, they’ve evacuated. A state of emergency has been declared in Los Angeles with more than 1,400 firefighters deployed to fight the multiple fires happening across the county, according to Gov.

Persons: Steve Kerr Organizations: CNN, Golden State Warriors, Cal Fire Locations: California, Pacific Palisades, Palisades, Los Angeles County

☆ 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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☆ Will Playing the Lottery in Southern California Turn You Into a Billionaire?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Claire Moses | More About Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This month, a winning ticket was sold at Midway Market & Liquor in Frazier Park, Calif., a town about 70 miles north of Los Angeles. In July, a lucky player bought a ticket worth $1.08 billion at Las Palmitas Mini Market in downtown Los Angeles. In 2016, lucky buyers in Chino Hills, Calif., less than 40 miles from Los Angeles, split $1.6 billion with winners in Tennessee and Florida. Lottery officials have not announced who won the winning billion dollar tickets in July and October. The wins have led people in online forums like Reddit and Quora, or in their Google searches, to ask: Is Southern California lucky?

Persons: Edwin Castro, ”, James Abdey, “ Organizations: Midway, Liquor, Las, Lottery, London School of Economics, Political Locations: Frazier Park, Calif, Los Angeles, Chino Hills, Tennessee, Florida, Altadena, Southern California

☆ The winner of the $2 billion Powerball jackpot in February has spent the last few months buying up California real estate
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The winner of a record-breaking $2 billion Powerball jackpot has gone on a real-estate-buying spree. Edwin Castro, 31, secured the winning $2.04 billion ticket at a gas station in Altadena, near Los Angeles, in November last year. This meant that Castro ended up with about $628.5 million in cash after federal taxes, according to USA Today. DailyMail.com reported that Castro has also been spotted driving a vintage Porsche, likely another of his post-jackpot purchases. AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter his property investments, which total about $76 million, Castro still retains a substantial portion of his winnings.

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☆ Opinion | Liberals and Oliver Anthony’s Working-Class Lament, ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Liberals on Their High Horse About ‘Rich Men,’” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Aug. 31):Thank you, Mr. Kristof, for once again opening eyes with your column about Oliver Anthony’s song “Rich Men North of Richmond.”I will admit to being one of those “liberals” ready to dismiss the song without listening to it. After reading the column I did listen to it, and I recognize it as continuing the tradition of protest songs that many in my generation embraced wholeheartedly in the ’60s, expressing the frustration of the working class in its struggle for the dignity and respect we all crave. It is time that those of us who have had the privilege of higher education and rewarding career paths put ourselves in the shoes of those who have had neither. We need to recognize the resulting widespread anguish and despair as a failing of our society, and embrace our own responsibility to proactively work toward healing these widening cracks in our democracy before it is too late. Barbara WilsonAltadena, Calif.To the Editor:Nicholas Kristof writes, “Liberals are properly attentive to racial injustice but have a blind spot about class, driven in part by unfair stereotypes that members of the white working class are invariably bigots.”

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☆ Wait for a winner goes on after Powerball draw as prize rises to an estimated $650 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Leila Sackur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The prize goes up to an estimated $650 million and the wait for a winner goes on as there were no PowerBall jackpot winners in Saturday's draw. The cash option for Monday's draw will be an estimated $328.3 million, Powerball said in a news release, adding that it "ranks as the ninth largest Powerball jackpot on record," and the second largest this year. Three tickets, sold in California, Illinois and Colorado, matched the first five numbers for a prize of $1 million each, Powerball said. A player in Washington also won $754.6 million in February and the following month a player scooped $162.6 million. His winning ticket was sold at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, about 15 miles outside downtown Los Angeles.

Persons: Saturday's, Edwin Castro, Castro, Carolyn Becker, Joseph Chahayed Organizations: Saturday's, Joe's Service Locations: California , Illinois, Colorado, Ohio, Washington, Altadena, Los Angeles, Syria

☆ $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot is now the largest prize in history—here are the top 5 so far
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot finally found a winner on Tuesday morning, after technical difficulties delayed the drawing that had been scheduled to take place on Monday. The massive prize marked the fifth time in the past five years that a lottery jackpot has crossed the billion-dollar threshold — and this one was a world record. That one was also a Powerball drawing that reached $1.586 billion and was split between three winning tickets. $1.59 billion (Powerball)This Powerball drawing from Jan. 13, 2016, for which three winning tickets were sold, held the record as history's biggest lottery prize for more than six years, until this week's Powerball drawing dropped it down a spot. $1.34 billion (Mega Millions)The first billion-dollar jackpot of 2022 topped $1.3 billion before it found a winner in July.

☆ Shop owner scores $1 million bonus for selling the winning Powerball ticket
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Stella Chan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Los Angeles CNN Business —The owner of Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, California, who came to the United States from Syria in 1980 with $14,000 in his pocket, is now a millionaire after selling the sole winning Powerball lottery ticket. California Lottery officials presented the check to Joe Chahayed and his sons Joe Jr. and Danny on a rainy election day outside of their gas station. Business owner Joe Chahayed smiles as he holds a check with his sons, Joe Chahayed, Jr., left, and Daniel Chahayed, right, outside his service center in Altadena, Calif. Damian Dovarganes/APChahayed said lottery officials were waiting for him before he opened his shop this morning. Chahayed hopes the winner is from the neighborhood, and is glad a portion of the lottery money will go towards California schools. “Somebody is holding on to a very important piece of paper this morning worth $2.04 billion, that’s two billion forty million dollars,” said Carolyn Becker, California Lottery spokesperson.

☆ $2 billion Powerball jackpot winner: The 3 smartest moves to make first—and 1 thing to avoid
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Mike Winters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In fact, lottery winners are more likely to declare bankruptcy within three to five years than the average American, according to 2011 academic study. Get professional financial adviceHire a financial team consisting of a fiduciary financial planner, estate planning attorney and accountant "at a minimum," says Brady. A fiduciary financial planner can be found on the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors's website, Collado says. These tips can help people find a financial planner that's a good fit for their needs. But everyone's situation is different, which is why consulting a financial planner is a good first step.

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