The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is working to locate and identify dozens of missing persons from the wildfires.
The degree of mismanagement is epic. It’s incompetence married with poisonous ideology, said Villanueva, who was sheriff between 2018 and 2022.
Firefighters are making progress, officials said, but residents must be ready for a return of powerful winds that could spread flames.
After dozens of people were arrested​ in Los Angeles County wildfire zones, District Attorney Nathan Hochman has called for making looting during a local emergency a felony crime punishable by time in prison rather than county jail.
Arrests near wildfire zones in Los Angeles continue to increase as more National Guard members have been deployed to the region.
Not only are LA residents dealing with containing existing fires, but a man was just caught on camera setting a tree alight in West Hollywood.
Los Angeles police have arrested four people on arson charges for allegedly trying to ignite new fires as firefighters continue to fight the Palisades and Eaton blazes that have killed a combined
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced charges against 10 people for looting or arson amid the wildfires raging in the area.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s tally of those missing in the Palisades fire slightly differed, with that department saying five people were still missing instead of seven. Initially, the LAPD said 38 people were reported missing in that blaze, but 30 were found safe and three were found dead.
The school is urgently looking to secure a temporary campus for its students and staff after the entire back portion of the building was destroyed in the Palisades Fire.
Los Angeles' wildfires have homeowners in Altadena patrolling their own streets to ward off looters, even amid evacuation orders and fiery conditions.