The Hurst Fire
It started at 10:10 p.m. on Tuesday and has grown to about 855 hectares. Located north of San Fernando.

The Woodley Fire
It started at 6:15 a.m. local time on Wednesday and covers about 30 hectares. The LA Fire Department said it is now contained.

The Lidia Fire
It erupted Wednesday afternoon in the mountainous area of ​​Acton, north of Los Angeles. It was 40 percent contained.

The fire at sunset
The fire in the Hollywood Hills started around 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Olivas Fire
The fire is burning in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles, and is now 100 percent contained.

A home owned by actor and comedian Billy Crystal was among more than 1,000 structures destroyed by wildfires across Los Angeles, including a major blaze that broke out in the Hollywood Hills.

Crystal and his wife, Janice, said in a statement that they had lived in their Pacific Palisades home since 1979. “We are of course heartbroken, but with the love of our children and friends we will get through this,” they said.

Leighton Meester and Adam Brody are also said to have lost their $6.5 million home. Brody, star of Nobody wants thatand Meester, who was there gossip GirlThey purchased their Pacific Palisades home in 2019, according to the Associated Press.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Maria Shriver were among the others who had to be evacuated. Shriver, the former first lady of California when she was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor, said the destruction was devastating. “Everything is gone,” she added.

The Hollywood Hills fire is “spreading rapidly,” David Acuna, a battalion chief with the California Fire Department, told the BBC Today Program.

He added that firefighters in the Los Angeles area were again hampered by strong winds overnight and progress in containing the fires was “zero.”

“The wind has been blowing consistently at 60-100 miles per hour since yesterday morning,” he said. “It actually blew stronger last night.”

Acuna added that further evacuation orders were being drawn up, already affecting 130,000 people.

The Los Angeles fires have killed five people, but officials have warned the death toll will rise.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced the deaths and said more deaths were feared. Another official said all five people killed died in the Eaton fire.

At a news conference, Los Angeles Police Chief James McDonnell said, “This is a tragic time in our history here in Los Angeles, but a time when we will truly be tested and see who we really are.”

As the fires spread, more than 130,000 people have now been evacuated in the greater Los Angeles area.

A fire broke out Tuesday morning in Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

As of Wednesday evening (local time), it had engulfed more than 25,000 acres and was at “0 percent containment.” According to the Wildfire Alliance, it is believed to be the most devastating fire in Los Angeles history, with economic losses estimated at over $50 billion.

The Los Angeles Fire Department reported “a large number of serious injuries,” mostly burns, as well as five deaths related to the Eaton fire.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as officials warned that red flag fire conditions and tornado-force wind gusts were expected to continue through Thursday, posing a danger to all of Los Angeles County’s 9.6 million residents.

• Read in full: How the strong winds caused the fire to spread quickly

Three separate wildfires ignited about 30 miles apart in Los Angeles within 12 hours on Tuesday.

Twenty-four hours after the first spark, thousands were forced to flee and hundreds of homes were destroyed as flames spread across large areas of the fire.

Not only was it unprecedented—the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history—but it was also unexpected: Although there are thousands of fires in Southern California each year, they typically occur between July and November.

How the fires spread in the first 12 hours:

• Read in full: It started in Pacific Palisades – then the “devil wind” whipped wildfires across Southern California

Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex faced power outages at their Montecito villa and the threat of evacuation if wildfires reached their neighborhood.

Much of Montecito in Santa Barbara County is considered a “high fire danger” area. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex may have to flee the $22 million home they share with their two children Archie, five, and Lilibet, three.

Southern California company Edison has said it is considering power shutdowns in Santa Barbara.

Although the next fire is in Malibu, about 70 miles from the Sussexes’ home, neighborhoods in Santa Barbara – where other celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Gwyneth Paltrow live – are still considered at risk.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has returned to the wildfire-ravaged city for ill-timed criticism of her diplomatic mission to Ghana.

When the mayor arrived back in the U.S. on Wednesday, he faced questions about the city’s handling of the fires.

At the airport, a Sky News reporter pressed her on whether she needed to apologize to Angelenos for leaving just as the National Weather Service began issuing warnings about the impending storm — and whether she regretted the fire department’s budget earlier this year to have shortened.

The mayor remained silent during the questioning.

One of the five people who died in the Los Angeles fires died while trying to save his home from the flames, his sister said Wednesday.

Victor Shaw, 66, told his sister Shari Shaw he wanted to stay behind and fight the flames as she made the painful decision to leave her family’s Altadena-area home.

“When I went back in and called his name, he didn’t answer,” Shari Shaw told local station KTLA. “I had to get out because the embers were so big and flying like a firestorm that I had to save myself. I looked behind me and saw the house in flames and I had to leave.”

Al Tanner, a friend of Shaw’s, later found his body on the driveway with a garden hose in his hand. “It looked like he was trying to save the house that his parents had lived in for almost 55 years,” he told KTLA.

There are at least six fires in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.

A new fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon on Wednesday evening, Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said at a news conference, prompting more evacuations.

Four of them were at 0 percent containment, according to state officials, with the two largest having burned a combined nearly 27,000 acres in the Palisades and Eaton since Tuesday.

At least 137,000 people were forced to evacuate due to the Palisades and Eaton fires alone.

The other fires are the Hurst Fire, which broke out in the Sylmar neighborhood north of San Fernando, and the Sunset Fire.

Fires in and around Los Angeles have destroyed the homes of numerous celebrities, including singer Mandy Moore and reality star Paris Hilton.

Moore lost her home in the Altadena neighborhood, about 30 miles east of the Palisades. “Honestly, I am shocked and numb for all that so many have lost, including my family. My children’s school is gone. Our favorite restaurants, leveled. So many friends and loved ones have also lost everything,” Moore wrote on Instagram alongside a video of destroyed streets in the foothills suburb.

Hilton shared a news clip on social media that included a video of her destroyed home in Malibu.

Cary Elwes, the star of The Princess Bride, said his family was safe but their home burned in the Palisades waterfront fire. “Sadly we lost our home, but we are grateful to have survived this truly devastating fire,” Elwes wrote on Instagram.

President Biden canceled his upcoming trip to Italy to instead focus on the federal fire response.

“After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where he met with police, fire and emergency responders today…President Biden made the decision to cancel his upcoming trip to Italy in order to continue to focus on managing the overall federal response to the pandemic.” the coming days,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

Biden was scheduled to visit Rome and the Vatican Thursday through Sunday, in what would likely be his last foreign trip as president.