California wildfires live updates: nearly 180,000 people evacuated and at least 10 killed

About 10,000 structures have been charred by the two biggest blazes, while Santa Monica declared a curfew because of looting
#PalisadesFire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/10/la-fires-live-updates-california-los-angeles-wildfires-fire-map-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url

California Wildfires Destroyed These Celebrity Homes And Local Landmarks https://www.inbella.com/849290/california-wildfires-destroyed-these-celebrity-homes-and-local-landmarks/ #AdamBrody #BillyCrystal #CelebritiesNews #EatonFire #EugeneLevy #PacificPalisades #PalisadesCharterHighSchool #PalisadesFire #ParisHilton #TheatrePalisades #wildfires

Ben Affleck returns to $20M Pacific Palisades home as fires rage on, feels ‘so grateful’ it’s still standing https://www.inbella.com/849288/ben-affleck-returns-to-20m-pacific-palisades-home-as-fires-rage-on-feels-so-grateful-its-still-standing/ #BenAffleck #CelebritiesTopics #JenniferGarner #LosAngeles #PacificPalisades #PageSix #PalisadesFire

#Canada #palisades #palisadesfire

#PalisadesFire #CAwx

Martha Walters, Reporter
Jan 10 at 6:42 AM
WILDFIRE RECOVERY FAMILY ASSISTANCE CENTER

The City of Los Angeles has established a Family Assistance Center for those affected by the Palisades Fire.

Cheviot Hills Recreation Center
2551 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90064, Phone (310) 837-5186

Friday, January 10: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, January 11: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Cheviot Hills location is operated by LA City, and Los Angeles Police officers will be present to take missing persons reports…For more information on missing loved ones, please call (800) 675-5799 or visit the Red Cross Finding Friends & Family page.

https://share.watchduty.org/i/40335?ts=1736509326000

#PalisadesFire > Canadian "Super Scooper" plane grounded after hitting civilian drone ... The impact left a large hole in the plane’s left wing, but the pilot landed safely.

Reminder, Unauthorized drone flights pose serious risks to firefighter and public safety.

‘CSI’s Emily Procter Mourns “Close Community” Amid Palisades Fire https://www.inbella.com/848970/csis-emily-procter-mourns-close-community-amid-palisades-fire/ #CaliforniaWildfires #CelebritiesNews #CSI:Miami #EmilyProcter #LosAngeles #PalisadesFire #wildfire #wildfires

#LosAngeles #PalisadesFire

U-Haul is offering 30 days' free storage to those displaced by the SoCal fires.

https://mastodon.social/@ddayen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/113799518648072697

Patricia Jacobs

• Reporter
About 2 hours ago · Jan 9 at 8:31 PM

Per the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: ALL EVACUATION ORDER and WARNING AREAS for the Palisades Fire are under CURFEW ORDER from 6 P.m. tonight until 6 a.m. tomorrow. For additional information regarding the CURFEW ORDER, please visit AlertLA.org for additional information.

#PalisadesFire #curfew #WatchDuty

PALISADES FIRE UPDATE 1/9, 9:00 PM: 19,978 acres, Containment 6%. Dangerous fire weather with wind & humidity continues. Power & gas remains out. #Malibu #wildfires https://www.malibucity.org/AlertCenter.aspx?AID=3382

#PalisadesFire #Malibu #Topanga #PacificPalisades #wildfires #SantaMonica

#palisadesfire #eatonfire #californiawildfires #capitalism #lafires

Los Angeles & Ventura Counties wildfires

#PalisadesFire: at least 19,978 acres and 6% contained

#EatonFire: at least 13,690 acres and 0% contained

#HurstFire: at least 771 acres and 37% contained

#LidiaFire: at least 348 acres and 60% contained

#KennethFire: at least 960 acres and 35% contained

Structures destroyed / damaged ~ 10,000
Death toll at 10

जंगल की आग ने लॉस एंजिल्स को तबाह कर दिया: पांच लोगों की मौत, हजारों इमारतें नष्ट
https://www.newsfeedindia.in/2025/01/los-angeles-wildfires-2025-destruction-deaths-evacuations.html
#LosAngeles #Wildfires #CaliforniaFires #SantaAnaWinds #DisasterRelief #Firefighters #Evacuations #AirQuality #PalisadesFire #LAnews

Scope of destruction of the fossil-fueled
#PalisadesFire

You cant shoot these #domesticspying technoshits down even if theyre spying on you nude in your own backyard. You have to report them to the FAA... BUT YOU CAN'T b/c they have no reg #. Even IF, it would be such small lettering you could never decipher it except w/ a telescope and the pos was stationary.

"the FBI is now planning “aerial armor” to make sure no further drones can fly", spreadspectrum Jamming.

#Drone collides with firefighting aircraft over #PalisadesFire
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/drone-collides-with-firefighting-aircraft-over-palisades-fire-faa-says

Some thoughts on house fires (having had one).

I see right now they're saying over 5000 buildings burned in one of the LA fires, and 1000 from another. But the the number will increase.

In some respect having your house reduced to ashes is easier. You just build a new one. Assuming the money is available of course.

But a lot of people will find that they didn't insure the contents of the house for enough. And they didn't have riders for particularly unique items. Check yours; even if you rent.

Others won't have documentation of what they had in the house, and the insurance will want proof they don't have. Video your house while talking about stuff. Save receipts in the cloud for major items.

But there will also be homes that survived the fires, and maybe they don't even look too bad. But it's not that simple. The plus, you can document what you lost, and you don't need to start the house from scratch. The minus, rebuilding has complicated decisions. And what survived is not as clear as you might think.

A few decades ago we had a house fire when we were away. Halogen torchère lamp without a wire cover. Some papers fell onto it from a bookcase. Lamp was on a timer.

A neighbor spotted the smoke. The fire department got there quickly. The house was just a few minutes from the flashpoint where everything in the house would have gone up at once. The microwave melted. The finish on the newer furniture upstairs melted. The thermostat upstairs melted. It was very close.

• An insurance adjuster came and spent a week inventorying everything in the house. He produced a 100 page spreadsheet. We had to put values on all of it.
• I hired a friend to help me in the library. We went through every book, keeping those lower down that survived, tearing the covers off the upper ones so we could see what they were, and recording title and author of everything. My original US copy of The Hobbit looks like someone found it in Smaug's treasure pile.
• Every piece of clothin,Cloth, rugs.... had to be treated for smoke. Only about a third survived the treatment. Leather was hopeless; it came out brittle.
• Newer furniture with cheap finishes was hopeless. Some of the antique wood ones we had refurbished. They'd super lightly sand the grime off. But one of my dressers still smells like smoke on hot days.
• And the smoke was the issue. We had two choices. Tear it down. Or remove all the interior paneling, and coat the framing in a sealant that would keep any smoke smell from escaping. Because that smell was embedded in every piece of unprotected wood in the house. We went with the latter, and it worked. But wow that was a lot of work.
• Rebuilding took about six months. We had to rent a house. Friends donated furniture. Our kids were still able to go to the same schools. With a fire like this that's going to be much harder. Where are those folks going to stay? Where are they going to get contractors? Richer folks are going to be in a bidding war for contractors, prices will be insane.

I will say, USAA insurance was a dream. They even went to bat for us when the contractor tried to cut corners. Not sure if they are still that good though. And of course a lot of insurance companies have left CA, and this fire might bankrupt some. The current insurance (and the "you have to rebuild to get the money") model are not going to survive climate change.

We were very lucky. We ended up with a home that was even more personalized. I ran Ethernet to every room! (Just in time for wifi to make it unnecessary) And we lost very few things that were irreplaceable. It's going to be a lot harder for these people, and it's going to impact many many people who didn't even lose anything.

#housefire #fire #PalisadesFire

New perimeters and acreage amounts.
#PalisadesFire 19,058 acres
EatonFire 13,299 acres

Open GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=34.130664,-118.380449&zoom=10&basemap=USA_basemap&overlay=MODIS_7_day,VIIRS_7_day,Lake_river_stream,Perimeter_FIRIS_intel&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_wildland_fire.txt

Doesn’t Sam Harris live on the same street as, if not right next to, Tom Hanks, up in the Riviera section of Pacific Palisades? Is that Harris’ house gone in the picture? I do not know for sure, just asking.

#palisadesfire #samharris

Ugh! Got an evac order. Spouse had a meltdown. They rescinded it as an error 15 minutes later. Guessing it went countywide because it took 10 minutes to resolve the link. Bet all the servers crashed. Friends are being displaced tho. We've arranged lodging for two households.

#LAFire #LAFires #Fire #palisadesfire #Writer #Author #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #Emergency

People have walked for miles to get to where the PD is blocking the road up to where their houses might still be standing. The police are escorting people up there, one at a time. "What was up there?" "My house among many, many houses that were destroyed." Dude grabbed his computer systems and hard drives. He rode his bike. His wife decided to walk there against his wishes, so she did. From Santa Monica. "These people are wonderful neighbors." It's all gone, but for his place. "They're nothing. It's just destroyed." "It's Armageddon. I've never seen anything like it in my life."

#PalisadesFire

Another presser. It's the law's turn:

20 people have been arrested for looting. The PD is not pleased. After the supervisor (don't know her name) finishes snarling, the Sheriff will be up next.

Sheriff praises supervisor. National Guard support requested for Palisades and Eaton fires. It's a county request, but they are working in coordination with LAPD. Praises Gov. Newsom, "who has been on the phone constantly with us."

Death toll per the fire - the number for that and looters is in flux. We're operating in a very fluid environment. We'd like to give you a number. To you, it's a number. To us, we have to contact family members. Confirmed, by death, numbers will change as we get into the damaged areas. Homicide will do the death investigations once they can get in there. Our team has been working on a curfew around the 2 fire areas, Palisades and Eaton. We'd like to implement it tonight. If not, tomorrow night. 6PM to 6AM. "That will be the goal. We will be enforcing that." They say the NG presence will help deter looters, "so we don't continually victimize people who have had to leave their homes." The majority of people they've had to rescue from cars and houses were people who refused to adhere to mandatory evacuations. Please leave when you're told to go. If you have questions, please visit lacounty.gov. I missed the /whatever part.

There will be a house-by-house search for bodies.

13,690+ acres to the Eaton Fire, which has grown because it went up Mt. Wilson.

A firefighter who fell is in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery.

4-5000 structures determined to be destroyed. This morning they reported 1000. [I think he means just the Eaton Fire.] The fire remains under investigation. Because the cause of the fire is unknown at this time, if it turns out to be an arson fire, the deaths are homicides. Which is why the Sheriff and law enforcement will be involved in body searches.

Fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter support is still hit-and-miss. They get up in the air, and the winds can get too high to proceed.

Arcadia fire chief praises the help. Misstated their URL. IT IS NOT A BACKSLASH! I think it's www.arcadia.gov/2025fire but who knows? And is anything capitalized? Get a geeky nerd to read website URLs, please.

Judy Chu just had a tour of Altadena and Pasadena talks about business and homes that are gone. Appreciates first responders. Speaks of Biden's help - speaks of being already reimbursed for 75% of costs of recovery, and appreciates POTUS raising it to 100% for the next 180 days. FEMA administrator will be at the site of the Eaton fire later. "Help is on the way, and I know that we will get through this."

Pasadena mayor is up - says they consider Altadena part of the city of Pasadena. Praises many civilian responders. Mentions the curfew briefly. Asking if you are under mandatory evacuation orders, stay out of those areas until you hear officially that the orders have been lifted.

The speakers are finished. Now the reporters are up. ABC7 asks about the curfew. "There is definitely going to be an impact to residents." Asking police and NG to be sensitive to needs. Will try to minimize impact, but will maximize security. [Translation: They are cops and NG. Try to be patient with them.]

"Are President Biden's orders going to be undone after January 20th?" The answer was that they could be, and that Trump shouldn't.

KCAL9 just cut off the presser.

#EatonFire #PalisadesFire #LA #LosAngeles #LosAngelesCounty

Multiple reports say that the building housing the Theosophical Society of America in Los Angeles has been destroyed along with the majority of its artifacts by the devastating fires.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/01/la-fires-claim-theosophical-society-building-and-archives.html

#lafires #losangeles #TheosophicalSociety #Theosophy #pagan #cafires #palisadesfire

#PalisadesFire

Cole Euken, Staff Reporter
Jan 9 at 5:16 PM

An Evacuation Order has been issued for Zone: RMB-U030-E per the LASD Lost Hills Station on X. (This zone is located on the west side above Malibu)
The Palisades Fire has burned into the previous burn scar of the Franklin Fire from last month. No structures are in this area & there is no current threat to other areas within the burn scar.

Note this zone has not been flipped to an Order on the Genasys map but has been reflected to an Order on the Watch Duty map.

https://share.watchduty.org/i/40335?ts=1736460967000

Hollywood Stars Who Have Lost Homes in Los Angeles Fires https://www.inbella.com/848239/hollywood-stars-who-have-lost-homes-in-los-angeles-fires/ #EntertainmentNews #LosAngeles #PacificPalisades #PalisadesFire #THROriginalVideo #wildfires

Los Angeles County ACCESS CENTER Hotline 1-800-854-7771

24/7

The Hotline enables disaster victims to receive, over the telephone, the following mental health services:
Screening
Assessment
Referral
Crisis Counseling
During County emergencies, ACCESS also functions as a disaster response line that provides crisis-related supports and services to impacted residents and communities.

https://dmh.lacounty.gov/our-services/disaster-services/access-hotline/#::text=1%2D800%2D854%2D7771,services%20in%20Los%20Angeles%20County

#MentalHealth #EatonFire #PalisadesFire

Media has been trying to launch drones at 280 Treno, they were denied... not sure if they were the source of the drone. Law enforcement requested. #PalisadesFire

"Joggers on ridge" #PalisadesFire

Planet Fitness on Thursday told CBS MoneyWatch the gym chain is opening dozens of its Los Angeles clubs "to anyone impacted" by the Los Angeles fires, including local residents and first responders. Members & non-members affected by the blaze may use Planet Fitness facilities, including showers, massage tools, wifi & electrical outlets free of charge. The offer is good until January 15

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-wildfires-pacific-palisades-planet-fitness-airbnb/

https://www.planetfitness.com/

#EatonFire #PalisadesFire

Devastating photos of Pacific Palisades today. #PalisadesFire

Priority traffic, drone spotted at Treno #PalisadesFire

#losangeles #wildfires #usa #mutualaid

Via Direct Relief 🐦

Free @3m N95 respirators will be available for pickup today and tomorrow, 1-5pm, at two locations:
Koreatown #YMCA Center for Community Well-being 433 S. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90020
Anderson Munger Family YMCA 4301 W Third Street, #LosAngeles, CA 90020
#eatonfire #PalisadesFire https://m.ai6yr.org/@cookiesinheaven/113800540647848306

Report of grass fire 16700 block of Monte Alto #PalisadesFire

CalFire's newest C-130 is on the #PalisadesFire (with many others of course), only mentioning it here since it could be the most beautiful water bomber yet, maybe even better looking than their Turbo Trackers. Sometimes you just have to be a plane geek.

#Eatonfire #PalisadesFire #hurtsfire
Animal Shelters Are Stretched Thin With Displaced Pets - Some owners fled with their #pets, but a network of facilities in the #LosAngeles area is straining to care for the hundreds of #animals left behind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/us/california-fires-pets-animals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Scary and sad update from Cal Fire:

"The National Weather Service has extended the Red Flag Warning through 6:00pm Friday. Across the fire area in the ridges and upper slopes, northeast winds are expected to diminish Thursday afternoon.

However, winds are expected to pick up again in the evening and stay strong through Friday morning. On Sunday and continuing through the middle of next week, a persistent offshore flow will return to the area. An extended weak to moderate period of Santa Ana winds is expected. There is a 30% chance of strong Santa Ana winds occurring Monday night and into Tuesday.

"Los Angeles County and the CAL FIRE Damage Assessment Team continue to assess and validate structures impacted by the Palisades Fire. There is a likelihood that more than 1,000 structures have been destroyed.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire/updates/942cb060-2ee0-47e8-83fe-96e13b9d82e9

#PalisadesFire

Via Direct Relief 🐦

Free @3m N95 respirators will be available for pickup today and tomorrow, 1-5pm, at two locations:
Koreatown #YMCA Center for Community Well-being 433 S. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90020
Anderson Munger Family YMCA 4301 W Third Street, #LosAngeles, CA 90020
#eatonfire #PalisadesFire

Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry Release Statement Regarding the L.A. Wildfires https://www.inbella.com/848121/duchess-meghan-and-prince-harry-release-statement-regarding-the-l-a-wildfires/ #LosAngeles #PalisadesFire #PrinceHarry #Royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #RoyalGossip #Royals #RoyalsGossip #SouthernCalifornia

A large header on the northeastern part of the #PalisadesFire, viewed from the Topanga Peak cam. This is the first time it's been visible from my street in Newbury Park.

LA 211 has paired up with Airbnb, and anyone who has been evacuated because of the Palisades fire can stay in an Airbnb for one week at no charge.

Just dial 2-1-1 or visit

www.211LA.org

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PGA Awards Postpones Nominations Announcement Due To L.A. Wildfires https://www.inbella.com/848081/pga-awards-postpones-nominations-announcement-due-to-l-a-wildfires/ #Awardsnews #canceled #EntertainmentNews #L.A.Local #L.A.Wildfires #PalisadesFire #PGAAwards #Postponed