Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

Years of rebuilding in Southern California will create a scarcity of construction workers and materials throughout the state.

Amid the wildfires, a petition initially created a year ago to address crime in Vallejo has reignited recent support.

Muttville, a senior dog rescue in San Francisco, has been working around the clock to send donations down to shelters impacted by the Los Angeles County wildfires.

Los Angeles County has been devastated by two deadly ... Trevor Pratt, a firefighter with the City of San Francisco, looks for hot spots at homes burned by the Palisades Fire, Jan. 13, 2025 ...

A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center for Angelenos impacted by the fires has also been set up at the UCLA Research Park (formerly the Westside Pavilion). The center will serve as FEMA’s central hub for evacuated residents on the Westside, offering aid to those who have lost their homes, businesses or vital records.

At least two dozen people have been reported dead in fires raging across Los Angeles. Five lived near one another in a ravaged Altadena neighborhood.

Besides burning the most urban area, the Eaton and Palisades fires are the largest ever for California in January. Alexandra Syphard, a senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, said their timing and path through the city “may have no precedent in history.”

Particularly popular in the Bay Area and coastal Los Angeles County, they ranged from $647 per parcel in Lakeside Union School District, a small rural district lying in both Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, and $369 per parcel in Woodside Elementary, near Palo Alto, to $59 per parcel in both Sunnyvale School District and Ventura Unified.

The San Francisco SPCA is offering free puppy adoptions for a limited time in order to free up space for animals being sent out of the wildfire zones in the Los Angeles area.

The Stockton Fire Department and 10 other fire agencies sent resources to help fight the Palisades Fire in Southern California. Here's what we know.