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Get weather updates from USA TODAY: USA TODAY's Weather Watch. The Los Angeles Zoo, also in sprawling, mountainous Griffith Park, was closed to the public on Wednesday, its website said, citing ...
An aircraft flies to drop fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm on Jan. 7, 2025. California ...
Here is a timeline of the major fires near Los Angeles. They have left at least 28 people dead and destroyed more than 16,000 structures. Crews have been battling the blazes since the first one ...
Smoke and flames rise while firefighters battle the Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake, north of Santa Clarita, California on Jan. 22, 2025. A gull flies past as the Hughes Fire burns north of Los ...
The Palisades Fire is a wildfire burning in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County in Southern California which has killed at least eight people. As of January 12, 2025, at 11:13 a.m. PST, the fire had spread to 23,713 acres (9,596 ha; 95.96 km 2; 37.052 sq mi), destroying the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and nearby Malibu.
The fires, particularly the West Fork fire, burned in dead trees killed by the spruce beetle. Due to the intensity of the West Fork fire which for some days was burning in windy conditions no attempt was made to directly attack it. Aggressive, and so far successful, efforts were made to prevent the Windy Pass fire from reaching the ski area.
The latest Los Angeles County wildfire, dubbed the Hughes Fire, began as a brush fire Wednesday a little before 11 a.m. before spreading to over 8,000 acres by around 4 p.m. local time.
It began as a brush fire near the site where an earlier fire, called the Lachman Fire, had been located on Jan. 1, and it spiraled out of control as high winds hit the region.