Photos: Southern California wildfires
Jan 09, 2025
A view of the Palisades Fire from above the San Fernando Valley on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Homes and businesses near and on Lake Avenue in Altadena destroyed in the Eaton fire are seen on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A fire hydrant sits dry on the corner of Lake Avenue and Altadena Drive in Altadena on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 during the Eaton fire. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Altadena Community Church in Altadena burned in the Eaton fire is seen on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A charred half mast American flag still flies on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 at the corner of Lake Avenue and Altadena Drive where businesses were destroyed in the Eaton fire. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A tanker makes a drop on the Palisades Fire above Topanga Canyon Blvd near Fernwood on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
LA City Fire helicopter makes a water drop above Topanga Canyon Blvd near Fernwood on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Roisin O’Brien with her dog “Sam” and Bryan Hutchinson, 50, of Fernwood watch as flames from the Palisades Fire moves up Topanga Canyon towards their homes on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Damage from the Eaton fire is seen Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, on Valley View Avenue in the Hastings Ranch area of Pasadena. (Photo by Arianna Clay, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Damage from the Eaton fire is seen Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, on Valley View Avenue in the Hastings Ranch area of Pasadena. (Photo by Arianna Clay, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
The entrance to Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church chapel with its 1948 cornerstone on Altadena Drive in Altadena is seen on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 after the church was destroyed in the Eaton fire. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The Fox’s Restaurant on Lake Avenue in Altadena seen on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 was lost in the Eaton fire. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Burned trees and wildfire smoke from the Palisades Fire are seen from Will Rogers State Park with the City of Los Angeles in the distance, on Jan. 9, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)
A beach front property is burned by the Palisades Fire Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Beach front properties are left destroyed by the Palisades Fire, in this aerial view, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Homes bordering the Pacific Ocean are burned to the ground in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Damage from the Eaton fire is seen Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at a home on Carriage House Road in the Hastings Ranch area of Pasadena. (Photo by Arianna Clay, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
A resident inspects the remains of her home that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on Jan. 09, 2025 in Altadena, California. Fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds, the Eaton Fire has grown to over 10,000 acres and has destroyed many homes and businesses. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The devastation from the Palisades Fire is seen from the air in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The devastation from the Palisades Fire is seen from the air in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The devastation from the Palisades Fire is seen from the air in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Beach front properties are left destroyed by the Palisades Fire, in this aerial view, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Endless destruction along the pacific coast as beachfront homes have been destroyed from the Palisades Fire on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Rows of destroyed homes during the Palisades Fire in the Alphabet Streets neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, CA, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rows of destroyed homes during the Palisades Fire in the Alphabet Streets neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, CA, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Beach front properties are left destroyed by the Palisades Fire, in this aerial view, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The devastation from the Palisades Fire is seen from the air in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Rows of destroyed homes during the Palisades Fire in the Alphabet Streets neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, CA, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Ashley Dimalanta, left, holds one of the few items left a family photo including her grandmother that had passed away as her uncle Benhard Dimalanta looks on after their family home at 2764 Woodlyn Rd. was destroyed during the Eaton Fire in Pasadena on Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG)
Burnt mementoes after the family home at 2764 Woodlyn Rd. was destroyed during the Eaton Fire in Pasadena on Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG)
Alan Zorthian, son of founder, estate administrator of Zorthian Ranch that was devastated by the Eaton Fire at his ranch in Altadena on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. The 48-acre ranch hosted people like Andy Warhol, Charlie Parker, Bob Dylan and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman who would visit with Alan’s artist dad Jirayr in the 1950s. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
From left, Caroline Gamble and Mark Rapolla walk through their neighborhood that was devastated by the Palisades Fire on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Drew Kelley, Long Beach Press-Telegram/SCNG)
An Altadena home lost in the Eaton fire is seen on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Destroyed homes along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA, during the Palisades Fire on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Rows of destroyed homes during the Palisades Fire in the Alphabet Streets neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, CA, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Smoke rises from destroyed homes along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA, during the Palisades Fire on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
An emergency vehicle drives through a neighborhood devastated by the Eaton Fire, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)