Copyright 2025 The Related Press. All rights reserved
A home burns within the Eaton Hearth in Altadena, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Picture/Nic Coury)
Firefighters battled early Thursday to manage a series of major fires within the Los Angeles space which have killed 5 individuals, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and despatched 1000’s of individuals frantically fleeing their houses.
Ferocious winds that drove the flames and led to chaotic evacuations have calmed considerably and weren’t anticipated to be as highly effective through the day. That might permit firefighters to make progress reining in blazes which have hopscotched throughout the sprawling area, together with massive ones in Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
This is the newest:
Satellite tv for pc imagery exhibits stark destruction of neighborhoods scorched by the fires
The dramatic degree of destruction in some locations was obvious in a comparability of satellite tv for pc photographs earlier than and after the hearth.
A swath of about 250 houses in an Altadena neighborhood dotted with the inexperienced canopies of leafy timber and aquamarine swimming swimming pools was lowered to rubble. Just a few houses have been left standing and a few have been nonetheless in flames within the photographs by Maxar Applied sciences.
Alongside a stretch of about 70 wall-to-wall houses overhanging the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, fewer than 10 gave the impression to be intact.
Copyright 2025 The Related Press. All rights reserved. This materials will not be revealed, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed with out permission.