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The Summary Demand for water to fight the Palisades Fire led the community s water tanks to temporarily dry up. The Los Angeles Fire Department said that hampered firefighting efforts. Experts said the area s water system simply wasn t designed for fire disasters of this magnitude. Water is in high demand to combat the rapidly The Palisades In the past day or so, several fire hydrants and all three of the community's water tanks have been temporarily dried up. The Los Angeles Fire Department claimed that this hindered efforts to put out the fire, but it did not go into detail about the particular difficulties or how it overcame them. There is currently no containment on the Palisades Fire, which started Tuesday morning. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated as m...

A string of fierce wildfires broke out Tuesday and surged throughout the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of houses and killing at least five people. The fires were fueled by strong winds and dry conditions. Two of the fires were linked to an undetermined number of serious injuries, according to a Los Angeles county fire official, and a city official in the city called Tuesday night "one of the most devastating and terrifying" that she had ever seen in her area. For live coverage, click this link. According to climate scientist Daniel Swain, "the more information we get, the worse this looks." What we know about the flames is as follows. Where are the fires? The Palisades Fire erupted Tuesday morning in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles County neighborhood east of Mal...

A string of fierce wildfires broke out Tuesday and surged throughout the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of houses and killing at least five people. The fires were fueled by strong winds and dry conditions. Two of the fires were linked to an undetermined number of serious injuries, according to a Los Angeles county fire official, and a city official in the city called Tuesday night "one of the most devastating and terrifying" that she had ever seen in her area. For live coverage, click this link. According to climate scientist Daniel Swain, "the more information we get, the worse this looks." What we know about the flames is as follows. Where are the fires? The Palisades Fire erupted Tuesday morning in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles County neighborhood east of Mal...

In the Los Angeles area, a number of large wildfires are causing death and destruction. Due to strong winds and dry circumstances, a few wildfires started on Tuesday and have since grown significantly in size. More than 80,000 people have been evacuated as of Tuesday afternoon, and two individuals have been murdered. Go here to watch live broadcast. The fires' magnitude and condition are depicted on the maps below. They will be regularly updated.Note: Every piece of content is rigorously reviewed by our team of experienced writers and editors to ensure its accuracy. Our writers use credible sources and adhere to strict fact-checking protocols to verify all claims and data before publication. If an error is identified, we promptly correct it and strive for transparency in all updates, feel ...

A string of fierce wildfires broke out Tuesday and surged throughout the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of houses and killing at least five people. The fires were fueled by strong winds and dry conditions. Two of the fires were linked to an undetermined number of serious injuries, according to a Los Angeles county fire official, and a city official in the city called Tuesday night "one of the most devastating and terrifying" that she had ever seen in her area. For live coverage, click this link. According to climate scientist Daniel Swain, "the more information we get, the worse this looks." What we know about the flames is as follows. Where are the fires? The Palisades Fire erupted Tuesday morning in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles County neighborhood east of Mal...

Washington Although he asserted that the matter was not discussed, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged on Wednesday that he received a call from Donald Trump the day before the president-elect requested that the Supreme Court postpone his impending sentencing. In a statement, Alito stated that he met with William Levi, one of his former legal clerks, Tuesday afternoon after Levi "asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position." "I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon," Alito stated in the statement, an account that ABC News broke first. "We did not discuss the emergency application he filed today, and indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that ...

Darrin Hurwitz began packing up the most sentimental belongings in his home, including a few family antiques, a handful of works of art, and his two daughters' favorite stuffed animals, as smoke began to creep closer to his Pacific Palisades home in California on Tuesday morning. Not much else could be grabbed in time. Hurwitz's most prized possession—the lives of his family—was in danger when the neighboring Palisades Fire, one of several wind-whipped fires sweeping throughout Southern California, abruptly surged. Within ten to twenty minutes, not a single fire was present. Hurwitz told Chris Jansing of MSNBC on Wednesday that there were several fires because embers were kind of crisscrossing the area. Because of the intensity of the fire, we determined that we had to leave our home as s...

Los Angeles In a real-life Hollywood catastrophe, hundreds of people in Los Angeles County were forced to evacuate their homes and businesses on Wednesday due to out-of-control wildfires. Firefighters and locals using garden hoses were helpless to stop the massive flames from consuming everything in their path. For live coverage, click this link. While the night sky was painted orange by fire, terrified drivers stranded in the traffic on Tuesday left their cars where they were and fled for their life through the choking smoke, leaving the legendary Sunset Boulevard littered with abandoned cars.Note: Every piece of content is rigorously reviewed by our team of experienced writers and editors to ensure its accuracy. Our writers use credible sources and adhere to strict fact-checking protoc...

A string of fierce wildfires broke out Tuesday and surged throughout the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of houses and killing at least five people. The fires were fueled by strong winds and dry conditions. Two of the fires were linked to an undetermined number of serious injuries, according to a Los Angeles county fire official, and a city official in the city called Tuesday night "one of the most devastating and terrifying" that she had ever seen in her area. For live coverage, click this link. According to climate scientist Daniel Swain, "the more information we get, the worse this looks." What we know about the flames is as follows. Where are the fires? The Palisades Fire erupted Tuesday morning in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles County neighborhood east of Mal...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday accused California Governor Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden of being responsible for the terrible flames that are raging in Los Angeles, forcing tens of thousands of people to abandon their homes and killing at least five people. Trump wrote in one of several posts on his social media platform, Truth Social, "Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way." He went on to say that Newsom "didn't care about the people of California, but wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish c...