The iconic landscape of Los Angeles County and its surrounding region have been forever transformed by a massive, multi-front firestorm that has leveled an area more than twice the size of
Officials advised the public to stay away from the ocean amid warnings of the strongest windstorm to hit SoCal in more than a decade.
The wildfires in Southern California have led to the evacuations of over 130,000 people and have destroyed over 10,000 structures. Overlaying the wildfire outbreak across other major U.S. cities shows that the blaze is one of the worst in United States history, as it continues to spread across residential areas in Los Angeles.
Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.
Over one week, at least 10 fires in the Los Angeles region have burned a total area nearly three times the size of Manhattan.
People in areas under mandatory evacuation orders face an "immediate threat to life" and must leave immediately.
The damage the Southern California wildfires have inflicted in the Los Angeles area so far is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
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New state laws taking effect this month aim to confront the nation’s ongoing housing crisis in various ways, from expanding housing options, to speeding up the development process, to protecting struggling tenants from eviction. Similar bills are in store for this year’s legislative sessions.
Vice President Kamala Harris could well be planning a post-inauguration relocation to Manhattan. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, was seen touring a luxury $20,000-a-month apartment on New York 's Upper West Side, sparking speculation that the couple will trade the White House for the Big Apple.
Southern California Edison, a unit of utility Edison International , was hit by multiple lawsuits on Monday claiming its electrical equipment started one of the major wildfires currently raging in the Los Angeles area,
Comedian Bill Burr called for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, to be freed from jail.