California fires live: five people killed and landmarks threatened as wildfires rage across Los Angeles

California fires: what we know so far …

Raging wildfires that have blazed around Los Angeles for two days have killed at least five people, destroyed almost 2,000 homes and buildings, and forced the evacuation of more than 130,000 people
CAL Fire said it was still dealing with five major fires, covering more than 29,000 acres
The disaster began on Tuesday afternoon, when a powerful windstorm fanned the flames of a fire in the scenic Pacific Palisades neighborhood, quickly forcing thousands to flee
Although winds had begun to ease by Wednesday evening, and firefighters from across the state were relieving exhausted crews, the danger was far from over. As officials provided an update on the fires, a new blaze broke out in the Hollywood Hills, and evacuation orders were also extended to Santa Monica. The US National Weather Service continued to warn “critical risk of fire weather over parts of Southern California on Thursday”

Fire map of Los Angeles

The Los Angeles department of water and power has issued a notice warning residents of the Pacific Palisades that they should only be using boiled tap water or bottled water for drinking, due to low water pressure and potential contamination of the supply. A similar notice has been issued in Pasadena
Three people have been arrested for looting, according to law enforcement officials
Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton and Eugene Levy are among celebrities who have lost their homes
The White House announced that Joe Biden had cancelled Thursday’s planned visit to Italy – the final overseas trip of his presidency – to focus on directing the federal response to the fires

Raging wildfires that have blazed around Los Angeles for two days have killed at least five people, destroyed almost 2,000 homes and buildings, and forced the evacuation of more than 130,000 people

CAL Fire said it was still dealing with five major fires, covering more than 29,000 acres

The disaster began on Tuesday afternoon, when a powerful windstorm fanned the flames of a fire in the scenic Pacific Palisades neighborhood, quickly forcing thousands to flee

Although winds had begun to ease by Wednesday evening, and firefighters from across the state were relieving exhausted crews, the danger was far from over. As officials provided an update on the fires, a new blaze broke out in the Hollywood Hills, and evacuation orders were also extended to Santa Monica. The US National Weather Service continued to warn “critical risk of fire weather over parts of Southern California on Thursday”

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The Los Angeles department of water and power has issued a notice warning residents of the Pacific Palisades that they should only be using boiled tap water or bottled water for drinking, due to low water pressure and potential contamination of the supply. A similar notice has been issued in Pasadena

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Three people have been arrested for looting, according to law enforcement officials

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Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton and Eugene Levy are among celebrities who have lost their homes

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The White House announced that Joe Biden had cancelled Thursday’s planned visit to Italy – the final overseas trip of his presidency – to focus on directing the federal response to the fires

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Firefighters in California are battling at least five major wildfires which have killed at least five people, destroyed nearly 1,900 structures, and which are threatening famous landmarks

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CAL fire lists five active fires which between them have burnt nearly 28,000 acres of land. Of the five, the Hurst fire and the Lidia fire have been partially contained

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The fires have put 130,000 people under evacuation orders and ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Pasadena. The Sunset fire was burning near the Hollywood Bowl and about a mile (1.6km) from the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are helping battle the destructive blazes. The California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) said on Wednesday that it had deployed 395 prisoners who have been trained as firefighters while in prison across 29 crews

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In Pasadena, fire chief Chad Augustin said the city’s water system was stretched and was further hampered by power outages, but even without those issues, firefighters would not have been able to stop the fire due to the intense winds fanning the flames

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Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton and Eugene Levy are among celebrities who have lost their homes

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The disaster began on Tuesday afternoon, when a powerful windstorm fanned the flames of a fire in the scenic Pacific Palisades neighborhood, quickly forcing thousands to flee

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Satellite images showed the scale of the destruction from the Pacific Palisades fire, which burned more than 15,000 acres and left the coastline along the famous Malibu neighbourhood scorched black and buildings along the water burned to the ground

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One of the five people killed in fires tearing across Los Angeles died trying to protect his home from the flames, his sister said on Wednesday, describing the moment she had to leave him behind.

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Victor Shaw ignored firefighters’ pleas to flee as fire began tearing through the Altadena area, Shari Shaw told local broadcaster KTLA.

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The 66-year-old, who lived with his sister and had serious health issues, told her he wanted to stay behind and fight the flames as she made the heartbreaking decision to leave their family home.

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“I had to get out because the embers were so big and flying like a firestorm,” she said. “I looked behind me, and the house was starting to go up in flames, and I had to leave.”

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Al Tanner, a friend of Shaw’s, later found his body in the driveway of the burned property.

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“It looked like he was trying to save the home that his parents had had for almost 55 years,” he told KTLA.

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From a windstorm of embers obscuring the ocean, to the smouldering remains of houses – dramatic pictures continue to emerge from Los Angeles tonight, where multiple wildfires continue to rage, and a new blaze has broken out in the Hollywood Hills.

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The California wildfires have become so destructive that hundreds of incarcerated firefighters have been deployed to help battle the blazes that are rapidly spreading across southern California as a powerful windstorm devastates the region.

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The California department of corrections and rehabilitation (CDCR) said on Wednesday that it had deployed 395 imprisoned firefighters across 29 crews, while the county fights multiple out-of-control blazes fueled by extreme winds and dry conditions.

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“The work of our incarcerated firefighters and staff is an essential part of this effort, and their commitment to protecting lives and property during these emergencies cannot be overstated,” said CDCR secretary Jeff Macomber.

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A series of new satellite images show the scale of destruction from the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires. By Wednesday evening, six fires were burning from the Pacific Coast inland to Pasadena, most of them uncontrolled.

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See here for the revealing before and after images.

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The Sunset fire in Hollywood Hills has expanded, now stretching out to over 50 acres, according to the Cal Fire’s latest update.

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Around 2 hours ago, it was 20 acres, so the fire is expanding quickly.

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The blaze is burning southward, heading toward Hollywood Boulevard. In an update posted to X, the LA County Sheriffs said the most intense fire activity was on the “southwestern side”, and that helicopters were “actively engaged.”

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They said the perimeter is holding firm on the eastern side, “thanks to a fire road and ground crews in place.”

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An evacuation centre for those impacted has been established at the Pan Pacific Recreational Center.

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Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has taken to X to announce that the Los Angeles Police Department has been enlisted to provide support in the efforts to deal with the Sunset Fire in Hollywood Hills.

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Police will be helping people evacuate, direct traffic, close roads near the fire and expand street access for firefighters, the mayor said:

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We are deploying LAPD officers to respond to Hollywood to help alleviate evacuation traffic. We are working urgently to close roads, redirect traffic and expand access for LAFD vehicles to respond to the growing fire.

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The Associated Press is reporting that President Joe Biden has cancelled a trip to Italy, choosing instead to remain in Washington and monitor the LA Fires.

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The trip was meant to be his final overseas trip as president, and was cancelled just hours before he was set to depart for Rome and the Vatican.

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Biden was scheduled to leave Thursday afternoon after eulogizing former President Jimmy Carter at a memorial service in Washington. He was expected to meet with Pope Francis and Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has named a new brushfire in the Hollywood Hills the Sunset fire. According to Cal Fire, the Sunset fire currently encompasses 50 acres and broke out about 5.57pm.

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The fast-moving fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills, threatening some of of Los Angeles’ most famous landmarks. The Sunset Fire was burning near the Hollywood Bowl and about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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The LA Fire Department issued an evacuation order for people in an area within Hollywood Boulevard to the south, Mulholland Drive to the north, the 101 Freeway to the east and Laurel Canyon Boulevard to the west – all iconic addresses for the entertainment industry.

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Within that area is the Dolby Theater, where the Oscars are held.

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Another brushfire has broken out in Los Angeles, this time in the Hollywood Hills.

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“We have a new brush fire that has just broken out within the last five minutes in the Hollywood Hills,” LAFD fire chief Kristin Crowley announced at a press conference this afternoon, before excusing herself to respond to the event.

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CBS News Los Angeles first reported the fire just after 5.30pm in the 2300 block of N Solar Drive.

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Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper in Altadena on Wednesday evening, California governor Gavin Newsom compared the wildfires current raging around Los Angeles to the Camp fire, the deadliest wildfire in state history which devastated the town of Paradise.

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“Just complete and utter devastation, and I’ve been to a lot of these fires, a lot, going back to Paradise. This approximates Paradise,” he said. “It’s not numeric. It’s just the feeling – the sense of loss, place, belonging.”

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The death toll from wildfires in the Los Angeles area has risen to five, according to the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department. The Associated Press reported the news, confirming earlier reports from ABC Los Angeles station KABC.

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Five wildfires are now raging across Los Angeles county, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. They include the 15,832 acre Palisades fire and the 10,600 acre Eaton fire, as well as the smaller Hurst (at 505 acres), Lidia (at 50 acres) and Woodley (at 30 acres) fires.

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In neighboring Ventura county, firefighters are also responding to a blaze named the Olivas fire.

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Five people have died in the Eaton fire in Altadena, an increase from the two reported deaths earlier today, Los Angeles county sheriff Robert Luna told ABC Los Angeles station KABC.

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Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, described the impact of the fires and winds affecting the area as “devastating”.

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In a statement posted to X, Bass said she spoke to the president, Joe Biden, where they discussed an “urgent path forward towards recovery for the thousands of families impacted”.

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Bass has come under criticism for being out of the country as wildfires tear through parts of southern California.

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She was part of a US delegation to Accra for the inauguration of the president of Ghana, John Mahama.

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About 1.5 million residents are without power in California, with nearly a million of them in Los Angeles county, according to PowerOutage.us, as wildfires continue to rage across the region.

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The Palisades fire, which is the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles’ history, has increased in size yet again – now encompassing 15,832 acres.

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The fire is confirmed to have destroyed 300 structures thus far, according to CalFire.

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It is one of a number of fires raging in the Los Angeles area – stretching the resources of firefighting teams.

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The US president, Joe Biden, has approved a major disaster declaration for California – directing the Department of Defense to deploy extra firefighting personnel to tackle the life-threatening blazes.

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Here’s a recap of what else has happened today so far:

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At least two people were killed in the Eaton fire, north of Pasadena which has grown to 10,600 acres and has destroyed more than 100 structures. There have also been “a number of significant injuries”, fire officials said, and “tens of thousands of homes” are affected. About 32,500 residents were under evacuation orders, a drop from the more than 50,000 residents evacuated overnight.

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The Hurst fire, in the San Fernando Valley, is close to 500 acres after erupting on Tuesday night. More than 3,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate the area in Sylmar.

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All Los Angeles fire department air operations in the Palisades have resumed after being grounded due to extreme weather conditions. LAFD helicopters are back to dropping water and hundreds of firefighters continue to be on the scene to help respond to the Palisades fire and Hurst fire, said LA’s mayor, Karen Bass.

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Officials are urging residents across the region to conserve water so there is enough for firefighters to use. Demand was so high that three tanks emptied by Wednesday morning, causing some fire hydrants to dry out.

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California governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Tuesday. President Joe Biden warned the recovery “is going to take time” as he attended a briefing with Newsom at a Santa Monica fire station. President-elect Donald Trump blamed Newsom’s environmental policies for the fires.

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Key events

Here is the latest map from our interactive team showing where evacuation orders and evacuation warnings have been in place around the five major wildfires that are burning around Los Angeles in California.

Evacuation area map for Los Angeles

The New York Times has spoken to a couple who had to flee fires this week twice. Rob Sherman and Cecilia Peck initially fled their home in the Highlands area of Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, to go and stay with friends, only to be evacuated again from that neighborhood west of Pasadena the following day.

Sherman told the newspaper “If it weren’t so serious, I would have thought it was kind of funny. But it is so serious. It’s all happening against a backdrop of life and death.”

This clip of aerial footage shows the Sunset fire sweeping across Hollywood Hills in California.

Aerial footage shows wildfire burning in Hollywood Hills – video

NBC News reports that all schools in Los Angeles County will remain closed for in-person teaching today. UCLA has moved undergraduate classes online. Authorities yesterday said that three schools in the Palisades had suffered significant damage during the fire.

California fires: what we know so far …

Raging wildfires that have blazed around Los Angeles for two days have killed at least five people, destroyed almost 2,000 homes and buildings, and forced the evacuation of more than 130,000 people
CAL Fire said it was still dealing with five major fires, covering more than 29,000 acres
The disaster began on Tuesday afternoon, when a powerful windstorm fanned the flames of a fire in the scenic Pacific Palisades neighborhood, quickly forcing thousands to flee
Although winds had begun to ease by Wednesday evening, and firefighters from across the state were relieving exhausted crews, the danger was far from over. As officials provided an update on the fires, a new blaze broke out in the Hollywood Hills, and evacuation orders were also extended to Santa Monica. The US National Weather Service continued to warn “critical risk of fire weather over parts of Southern California on Thursday”

Fire map of Los Angeles

The Los Angeles department of water and power has issued a notice warning residents of the Pacific Palisades that they should only be using boiled tap water or bottled water for drinking, due to low water pressure and potential contamination of the supply. A similar notice has been issued in Pasadena
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The White House announced that Joe Biden had cancelled Thursday’s planned visit to Italy – the final overseas trip of his presidency – to focus on directing the federal response to the fires

Eric Holthaus, an American meteorologist and climate journalist, writes for the Guardian today, arguing that the Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded:

The ingredients for these infernos in the Los Angeles area, near-hurricane strength winds and drought, foretell an emerging era of compound events – simultaneous types of historic weather conditions, happening at unusual times of the year, resulting in situations that overwhelm our ability to respond.

These fires are a watershed moment, not just for residents of LA, but emblematic of a new era of complex, compound climate disaster. Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles have never existed in all of known history, until they now do.

The greenhouse gases humans continue to emit are fueling the climate crisis and making big fires more common in California. As the atmosphere warms, hotter air evaporates water and can intensify drought more quickly.

Melting Arctic ice creates changes in the jetstream’s behavior that make wind-driven large wildfires in California more likely. Recent studies have found that Santa Ana wind events could get less frequent but perhaps more intense in the winter months due to the climate crisis.

The more complicated answer is that these fires are an especially acute example of something climate scientists have been warning about for decades: compound climate disasters that, when they occur simultaneously, produce much more damage than they would individually.

You can read more from Eric Holthaus here: The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded

Some more detail on the emergency curfew order imposed in Santa Monica as the city deals with the impacts of the Palisades fire.

In a statement mayor Lana Negrete said:

The Palisades fire is currently impacting neighborhoods in the northern part of Santa Monica, with approximately 2,472 households under a mandatory evacuation order, and 8,338 under a voluntary evacuation warning. This emergency order further assists our first responders and further protects residents as we weather this regional crisis and, ultimately, begin and support recovery efforts.

City manager David White, who signed the order late on Wednesday, said:

Our first responders are out patrolling, staying vigilant and coordinating with our partners throughout this emergency on all fronts. The order helps us ensure nobody enters impacted areas who is not supposed to, particularly those with nefarious intentions attempting to take advantage of the mandatory evacuations.

This satellite image shows a view of burning homes during the Eaton fire in Altadena, California

This satellite image taken and released by Maxar Technologies on 8 January shows a color infrared view of burning homes during the Eaton fire near Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena, California. Photograph: Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies/AFP/Getty Images

On its incidents page, CAL Fire is giving these latest figures for the five major wildfires in California:

Palisades fire, 17,234 acres, 0% containment
Eaton fire, 10,600 acres, 0% containment
Hurst fire, 855 acres, 10% containment
Lidia fire, 348 acres, 40% containment
Sunset fire, 43 acres, 0% containment

On top of that updated forecast from the US National Weather Service, one of its meteorologists, Ariel Cohen, has spoken to CNN, telling the news network:

Just because we’re not seeing the same strength of winds as we saw last night, I urge everyone to remain at a high state of vigilance, as we still have these fires growing and we still have the winds to create the rapid spread.

The US National Weather Service has issued an updated forecast, which includes this information on California:

There is a critical risk of fire weather over parts of Southern California on Thursday. Strong high pressure over parts of the Northern Intermountain Region and Great Basin will set up Santa Ana winds over Southern California. Therefore, the SPC has issued a critical risk of fire weather over parts of Southern California. Winds of 20 to 40mph, with stronger winds in the terrain, low relative humidity, and dry fuels have contributed to the dangerous conditions.

Yesterday the Guardian published this explainer on what Santa Ana winds are, and how they increase wildfire danger …

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