South Florida may be 3,000 miles away from those in need, but advocates said they'd be grateful for the donations.

Matias Ortiz, a Miami native, told CBS News Miami's Anna McAllister he lost everything as his home burned to the ground in the Los Angeles area.

The importance of year-round fire preparedness and of having a robust infrastructure to combat potential blazes is being emphasized.

Joe “Da Barber” Alfano of Jupiter's Barbers Edge was invited to Los Angeles to provide firefighters haircuts during the ongoing wildfires in Southern California. He will be joined by John Rourke, who will help distribute goods to the first responders.

The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 37 square miles. That’s more than half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles. The Palisades Fire threatens thousands of structures inside the fire’s perimeter.

CBS News Miami's Trish Christakis spoke with Nico Feula, who lives in Sylmar, one of the several areas impacted by the wildfires in Southern California.

In our news wrap Tuesday, residents are fleeing the hills of Los Angeles after the Palisades Fire exploded in size to more than 700 acres, a so-called polar vortex is bringing freezing temperatures as far south as the Gulf Coast,

The cost of insuring against catastrophe for a large part of the market has already been locked down for a year, so the immediate impact is a way off.

The role of inmate firefighters is in the spotlight as crews continue to battle the blazes in Southern California.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

Other images show scorched canopies, he said. The powerful Santa Ana winds damaged trees in South Los Angeles, Watts and Inglewood, historically underserved neighborhoods with less shade and ...

California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. As the U.S. population shifts to the South, political power is seeping from Democratic to Republican states.