Firefighters are battling to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and forced over 180,000 people to flee their homes.
What to know:
Wind conditions: Ferocious, blaze-fanning winds have calmed somewhat today, but the National Weather Service warned that the wind is expected to strengthen this evening.
Fire map: The Palisades fire, near the coast, has burned about 26.9 square miles (69.8 square kilometres). The Eaton fire, north of Pasadena, has burned about 16.6 square miles (43 square kilometres). And the Hurst fire, in the San Fernando Valley, has burned 1.3 square miles (3.4 square kilometres). The Sunset fire in the Hollywood Hills has burned less than a square mile.
Outages and evacuations: Roughly 400,000 customers statewide were without power as of Thursday, according to the tracker PowerOutage.us. Nearly 180,000 residents are under evacuation orders, per officials.
