Two people were arrested in Pacific Palisades Saturday for allegedly using a firetruck bought at an auction to impersonate firefighters at a checkpoint reserved for crews responding to the deadly Palisades Fire.
Officials say a man who tried to enter the Palisades fire zone claiming to be a volunteer firefighter was a convicted arsonist in a decommissioned fire truck.
Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, are burning across Los Angeles.
The National Weather Service has issued a warning of a “particularly dangerous situation” for parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties from Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning.
Coverage of the fires ravaging Altadena, Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, including stories about the devastation, issues firefighters faced and the weather.
Santa Ana winds return to Southern California from Monday to Tuesday, once again raising fire danger concerns.
The LAPD reportedly detained two men near Kamala Harris' Brentwood home in the Palisades Fire evacuation zone after potential burglary call came in.
Resident Nicolas Libonati said he saw a lot of abandoned cars on the road, and people running toward the coast. "It was kind of a surreal scene," he said.
A brush fire that broke out in Southern California Tuesday afternoon has forced officials to order the evacuation of about 30,000 people.
Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir.
Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher ripped into Los Angeles and California authorities Friday regarding their handling of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. “When asked why so many of the hydrants in the [Pacific] Palisades ran out of water,