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About 35,000 homes and businesses without electricity in Los Angeles – data

34,646 homes and businesses in Los Angeles are now without electricity, according to Poweroutage.us, an outage monitor that tracks blackouts across the US.

Roughly 18,400 Southern California Edison customers remain without power, as well as about 16,100 Los Angeles Department of Water & Power customers, and about 100 with Pasadena Water and Power, according to the latest data.

Here is the latest data showing the number of people without power in some of the other areas of California:

• San Bernardino: 8,333

• Riverside: 7, 152

• Santa Barbara: 2,081

In an update posted to X a few hours ago, the LA Department of Water & Power said since the fires started on Tuesday they have restored power to over 355,000 customers.

Governor Gavin Newsom will suspend various landmark environmental laws to allow for rebuilding across southern California in areas that have been destroyed by the wildfires.

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In an announcement on Sunday, Newsom said that as part of his executive order, he will waive the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act.

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Newsom said:

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When the fires are extinguished, victims who have lost their homes and businesses must be able to rebuild quickly and without roadblocks. The executive order I signed today will help cut permitting delays, an important first step in allowing our communities to recover faster and stronger. I’ve also ordered our state agencies to identify additional ways to streamline the rebuilding and recovery process.”

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In addition to the suspension of CEQA review and California Coastal Act, the executive order will direct state agencies to identify additional permitting requirements that can be safely be suspended or streamlined to accelerate the rebuilding process.

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It will also extend protections against price gouging on building materials, storage services, construction and other essential goods and services to 7 January 2026 across Los Angeles county.

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CEQA, signed into law by California’s then governor Ronald Reagan in 1970, requires state and local agencies to disclose the environmental impacts of proposed projects. Meanwhile, the California Coastal Act, approved in 1972, offers guidance on how coastal land across California is developed or protected from development.

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This is the current state of the Los Angeles wildfires as of Sunday morning, according to CalFire:

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  Palisades: Burned 23,707 acres, 11% contained

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  Eaton: Burned 14,117 acres, 15% contained

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  Kenneth: Burned 1,052 acres, 100% contained

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  Hurst: Burned 799 acres, 76% contained

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It has just gone past 7am in Los Angeles, where firefighters are continuing to battle three fires – Palisades, Eaton and Hurst – that are ravaging the city. Here is the latest on the LA fires:

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  At least 16 people have been killed so far in the California fires, with 11 attributed to the Eaton Fire and five to the Palisades, while 13 other residents remain missing.

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  Authorities issued new evacuation orders for eastern communities threatened by the Palisades fire late last night, including parts of the affluent Brentwood area.

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  More than 100,000 people are under evacuation orders. There are reports of California residents who have lost their homes struggling to find new places to live because some landlords and businesses are illegally raising prices to a very high level.

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  Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Los Angeles are still without electricity.

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  At least 20 arrests have been made for looting. Among them were two looters who posed as firefighters when entering houses, according to the police.

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  Officials have imposed a mandatory curfew in evacuation zones as well as in the city of Santa Monica, which is next to Pacific Palisades.

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  California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has doubled the deployment of the state’s national guard to Los Angeles amid the wildfires.

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  The cause of the fires, which started on Tuesday, has yet to be determined.

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The Eaton fire, in the north of the city around Pasadena, covering 14,117 acres, has killed 11 people, including: Victor Shaw, 66, Anthony Mitchell, 67, who was an amputee, and his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy and was in his early 20s, Rodney Nickerson, 82, and Erliene Kelley, a retired pharmacy technician in Altadena who lived very close to Shaw and Nickerson. The Eaton Fire is the second largest and is estimated to be about 15% contained. You can read more about the people who have died since the wildfires started on Tuesday here.

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The Palisades fire, which is roughly 11% contained and covers 23,654 acres, has killed five people, reportedly including Randall Miod, 55, a long-time Malibu resident who died in his home, according to his mother, Australian former child actor Rory Sykes, 32, who died after his mother was unable to evacuate him, and Annette Rossilli, 85, who reportedly refused to evacuate her Pacific Palisades home after she was told to after the start of the Palisades fire. 13 other people remain missing.

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As is noted in our news report on the California wildfires, at least 20 arrests have been made for looting. Officials have imposed a mandatory curfew in evacuation zones as well as in the city of Santa Monica, which is next to Pacific Palisades.

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“Looting is an issue, the number of arrests is continuously growing,” Capt Mike Lorenz of the Los Angeles Police Department said yesterday.

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“We even made arrests of two individuals that were actually posing as firefighters coming in and out of houses,” he added.

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LA County Sheriff Roger Luna has said looting was “unacceptable” and hoped having soldiers – deployed in LA to crack down on looting in neighbourhoods emptied by wildfire evacuation orders – would “help send a stronger message”.

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34,646 homes and businesses in Los Angeles are now without electricity, according to Poweroutage.us, an outage monitor that tracks blackouts across the US.

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Roughly 18,400 Southern California Edison customers remain without power, as well as about 16,100 Los Angeles Department of Water & Power customers, and about 100 with Pasadena Water and Power, according to the latest data.

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Here is the latest data showing the number of people without power in some of the other areas of California:

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  San Bernardino: 8,333

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  Riverside: 7, 152

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  Santa Barbara: 2,081

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In an update posted to X a few hours ago, the LA Department of Water & Power said since the fires started on Tuesday they have restored power to over 355,000 customers.

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California attorney general Rob Bonta has warned that it is illegal to engage in price gouging, looting or scamming of any kind and those who do in response to the fires will be held accountable by the law.

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“We’ve seen businesses and landlords … jack up the price,” he told journalists at a press conference yesterday. “It’s called price gouging. It is illegal. You cannot do it. It is a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and fines.”

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Prices should only be increasing 10% or less from before the fire, Bonta was quoted as having said. He said that “this is California law and it’s in place to protect those suffering from a tragedy”.

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The comments come amid reports of California residents who have lost their homes to the fire struggling to find new places to live due to price gouging – where companies or an individual excessively raise prices during emergencies.

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“We put in an application at a house … that was listed at $17,000 a month, and they told us if we didn’t pay $30,000, we weren’t going to get it. They told me they have people ready to offer more and pay cash. It’s absolutely insane,” Maya Lieberman, a 50-year-old stylist, who is unable to find anywhere to live, told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Los Angeles wildfires that have destroyed 12,000 structures and killed 16 people.

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Five of the deaths were attributed to the Palisades fire and 11 resulted from the Eaton fire, the coroner’s office said on Saturday evening.

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The Los Angeles county sheriff, Robert Luna, said the death toll is expected to rise as authorities deploy search dogs to devastated areas. The sheriff also said 13 people are reported missing.

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County supervisor Lindsey Horvath said the LA area “had another night of unimaginable terror and heartbreak, and even more Angelenos evacuated due to the north-east expansion of the Palisades fire”.

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The CalFire operations chief, Christian Litz, said the main focus on Saturday would be the Palisades fire burning in the canyon area, not far from the UCLA campus and the J Paul Getty Museum. Over the past 24 hours, the Palisades fire spread over an additional 1,000 acres (400 hectares), consuming more homes.

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A fierce battle against the flames was under way in Mandeville Canyon, home to Arnold Schwarzenegger and other celebrities not far from the Pacific coast, where swooping helicopters dumped water as the blaze charged downhill.

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The National Weather Service warned of worsening Santa Ana winds that it predicted would pick up on Saturday night into Sunday morning in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and again on late Monday through Tuesday morning, bringing sustained winds of up to 30mph and wind gusts up to 70mph.

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The fire also was threatening to jump over Interstate 405 and into densely populated areas in the Hollywood Hills and San Fernando Valley.

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  In response to criticism over water supply issues, the LA Department of Public Works released a statement “correcting misinformation” about the lack of water to fight the Palisades fire this week. The statement was released one day after the chief of the LA fire department, Kristin Crowley, told Fox LA that her firefighters had been hamstrung when hydrants ran dry in certain parts of the Palisades on Wednesday morning.

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  Malibu has lost one-third of the eastern edge of the city, mayor Doug Stewart said yesterday evening. He said that Malibu, a community of about 10,000 people on the western edge of Los Angeles, has suffered three fires in three months, with the Palisades fire, which threatens to spread west of interstate 405, being the worst.

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  Firefighters deployed from Mexico arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. Canadian and Texan firefighters are also on their way to California.

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  Authorities issued new evacuation orders for eastern communities threatened by the Palisades fire late last night, including parts of the affluent Brentwood area.

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  California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has doubled the deployment of the state’s national guard to Los Angeles amid the wildfires.

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  Newsom has also launched a website aimed at addressing misinformation about the Los Angeles area wildfires. CaliforniaFireFacts.com, a branch of Newsom’s own website, includes information about water availability, forest land management and LA’s fire department budget.

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  The Southern California Edison CEO, Steven Powell, has told reporters there are now about 50,000 customers without power, “down from over half a million just a couple days ago”. Powell said there was no evidence that any of Edison’s equipment caused the Hurst fire but that the investigation was continuing.

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The animal resource centre Pasadena Humane has taken in and assisted dogs, horses, donkeys, goats, sheep and hundreds of other creatures that have been displaced by the wildfires in southern California: