Thanks for joining our live coverage of the Los Angeles wildfires today. The sun is setting in California and this blog is now closing. You can read our full report on the fires today here.

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Here are the top headlines from this afternoon and evening:

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  There are four wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles county. They include:

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    The Palisades fire, at 23,654 acres and 11% containment

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    The Eaton fire, at 14,117 acres and 15% containment

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    The Kenneth fire, at 1,052 acres and 90% containment

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    The Hurst fire, at 799 acres and 76% containment

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  Eleven fatalities have been officially confirmed in the Palisades and Eaton fires. As family members have been alerted to the losses of their loved ones, eight of the victims have been publicly identified. Law enforcement officials expect the death toll to rise once weather and fire conditions allow cadaver dogs and detectives into the burn zones.

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  In response to criticism over water supply issues, the LA department of public works released a statement “correcting misinformation” about the lack of water to fight the Palisades fire this week. The statement was released one day after the chief of the LA fire department, Kristin Crowley, told Fox LA that her firefighters had been hamstrung when hydrants ran dry in certain parts of the Palisades on Wednesday morning.

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  Firefighters deployed from Mexico arrived in Los Angeles Saturday afternoon. Canadian and Texan firefighters are also on their way to the Golden state.

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  California’s governor,Gavin Newsom,has doubled the deployment of the state’s national guard to Los Angeles amid the wildfires.

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  Newsom has also launched a website aimed at addressing misinformation about the Los Angeles area wildfires. CaliforniaFireFacts.com, a branch of Newsom’s own website, includes information about water availability, forest land management and LA’s fire department budget.

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  The New York Post published aerial images taken by paparazzi the same day that a drone grounded a firefighting Super Scooper aircraft. The images were captured by London Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based celebrity photography company founded by London-trained paparazzo Giles Harrison.

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Sag-Aftra, the union representing 160,000 actors and performers, will donate $1m to “assist members experiencing hardship caused by the Los Angeles fires”.

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“The very essence of a labor union is solidarity: that we all work to elevate each other during times of stability, and we’re there for each other in times of crisis. The devastation is hard to fathom, even for those of us living in it,” union president Fran Drescher said in a statement.

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Many members of the film industry – which has already canceled and postponed numerous premieres, awards shows and filming as a result of the fires – call the Los Angeles area home.

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Firefighters deployed from Mexico have arrived in Los Angeles, according to the California governor, Gavin Newsom.

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In a social media post, Newsom shared footage of a military plane bearing a Mexican flag arriving at Los Angeles international airport. “California is immensely grateful to our neighbors’ support in the fight against the wildfires in Los Angeles,” the governor wrote.

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Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the country would deploy firefighters and first responders to California in a press conference Friday morning.

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“We are going to provide support. Not only because the people and government of Mexico have always been generous, but also because there are many Mexicans in this area of the United States,” she said.

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“I feel very happy,” one of the Mexican firefighters told NBC News from the tarmac while readying to deploy. “It’s a pleasure to be able to help all our countrymen and also our neighboring country.”

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We are continuing to rush in resources to rapidly respond to the firestorm in Los Angeles fueled by hurricane-force winds. The men and women of the California national guard are working day and night to help Los Angeles residents during their greatest time of need. We are grateful for their continued bravery and commitment to be of service to others.”

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So far, California has mobilized more than 12,000 personnel including firefighters, guard service members, highway patrol officers and transportation teams to help fight the fires.

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Moreover, the response efforts include more than 1,660 pieces of firefighting apparatus, including more than 1,150 engines, more than 60 aircraft, dozers and more than 100 water tenders to aid in putting out the fires.

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Both Canada and Mexico have sent firefighters to help Los Angeles fight the blazes.

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In a post on X, Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said of the volunteer group: “We are a country of generosity and solidarity.”

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Meanwhile, the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, sent crews, aircraft and equipment from Canada to southern California to help battle the fires.

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Here’s a look at the current state of the California wildfires as of Saturday morning, according to the California department of forestry and fire protection:

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  Palisades fire: burned 21,596 acres, contained at 11%

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  Eaton fire: burned 14,117 acres, contained at 15%

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  Kenneth fire: burned 1,052 acres, contained at 80%

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  Hurst fire: burned 799 acres, contained at 75%

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  Archer fire: burned 19 acres, contained at 0%

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As a series of wildfires in the Los Angeles area grew into raging infernos, the city’s mayor, Karen Bass, was halfway around the world – part of the US delegation attending the inauguration of the new president of Ghana.

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By the time she returned home on Wednesday, the fires had seared through thousands of acres. They destroyed more than 10,000 structures and killed at least 11. And Bass was facing a barrage of questions and criticism – both from within LA, and outside.

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Angelenos, living through one of the worst disasters the region has faced in decades, asked why it had taken the mayor so long to return. Political rivals questioned why she had even embarked on an international trip, given that the National Weather Service in Los Angeles had been warning of “extreme fire weather conditions”. Advocates for the unhoused were flabbergasted when the city announced it had made just 135 hotel vouchers available, given that a staggering 75,000 people in LA lived on the streets, with little protection against noxious wildfire smoke. Some critics charged the city had been ill prepared. Others, including the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times – harped on reports that the city had cut the fire department’s funding in its latest budget. Those reports were incomplete at best inaccurate at worst,but by the time news outlets began reporting on the fiscal nuances, the damage had been done.

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At a press conference Thursday, Bass dismissed a question about her leadership – saying the “unprecedented” nature of the fires had stretched the city’s resources to respond. She declined to answer a reporter’s question about her initial absence – saying she was focused on saving lives and homes. When pressed again, she responded: “I just said what I believe is the most important thing for us to do right now and that is going to continue to be my focus.”

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Bass became LA’s first female and second Black mayor in 2022, after serving as a US congresswoman for a decade. She took office at a tumultuous moment in the city. Trust in the city’s leadership was at an all time low after racist audio of city councilmembers became public. In the ensuing years, her approach to policing and homelessness drew skepticism both from those hoping for a more hard-handed approach and those hoping for more compassion, but she was broadly credited for her pragmatic leadership, helping stabilise city hall.

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Over the past few days that goodwill has begun to fray. “LA is scared, seething and looking for a scapegoat,” wrote the longtime LA Times columnist Gustavo Arellano.

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But beneath this flood of frustration is an even more dismaying reality – that much of the catastrophe befalling LA is beyond its mayor’s control and instead the result of decades of policy decisions and a climate that is creating conditions for more extreme fires.

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Across Los Angeles, more than 144,000 people are under evacuation orders, local authorities say.

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Firefighters continue to battle raging wildfires across large pockets of Los Angeles. The six fires have destroyed buildings, ruined businesses and taken lives.

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Here is the current state of the fires, according to multiple reports:

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Palisades fire
n More than 21,000 acres have burned, claiming numerous homes, businesses and landmarks in Pacific Palisades, along the Pacific Coast Highway, and Malibu, as of 5am. The fire is 8% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).

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Eaton fire
n In Altadena and Pasadena, fires burned 14,117 acres. Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, posted on X on Friday morning that the fire was 3% contained as of 7.30am.

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Kenneth fire
n About 1,052 acres near the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties have been scorched. The fire is 50% contained, according to Cal Fire. Evacuation warnings have been lifted.

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Hurst fire
n The Hurst fire burned through 771 acres in and around Sylmar. Evacuation orders have been lifted as of 8pm. The fire is 70% contained, according to Cal Fire.

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Lidia fire
n The Lidia fire – located in the hills north of LA – is still burning across 395 acres and is 98% contained, according to Cal Fire.

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Archer fire

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The latest fire – the Archerfire – ignited on Friday and has blazed through 19 acres so far. It is currently uncontrolled.

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Pope Francis is praying for victims and rescuers trying to control the wildfires in California that have killed at least 11 people and destroyed thousands of homes, the Vatican said on Saturday.

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“His Holiness Pope Francis assures you and the community affected by this tragedy of his spiritual closeness,” said a statement sent on the pope’s behalf to the archbishop of Los Angeles, José H Gómez.

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Expressing “heartfelt condolences for those who mourn their loss”, Francis also offered prayers “for the relief efforts of emergency services personnel” and imparted “his blessing to all as a pledge of consolation and strength in the Lord”.

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Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has said he is “not interested in politicising a natural disaster” and wants the president-elect, Donald Trump, to “visit and understand the magnitude of this scope, and what happened to the American people that happen to reside here in California”.

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Newsom shared a video on X of an interview he had done in which he said the following:

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n

Do the right thing. This is an emergency.

n

We can do all this dance and we have differences of opinion as it relates to all kinds of issues and values, and you know, that’s fair game. That’s important. That dialectic is important.

n

But having this kind of friction when it comes to emergency response with emergency responders, these heroes, 12,000 that are on the frontlines right now? Taking care of people, making sure people are still alive … we’re still doing emergency maintenance and evacuation. We’re still concerned about flare ups and spotting.

n

You’ve got kids right now – they don’t have money for baby formula and we’re trying to get them disaster assistance. You have folks in hotel rooms that have money only for tonight and don’t know what’s going to happen – haven’t even had a chance to see their homes – here, it’s standing or here and it’s not standing.

n

We want to get them emergency assistance over the course of the next 18 months. That’s why I was with the Fema (Federal Emergency Management Agency) director today, and that’s what the president of the United States and I are talking about. And I’d like to have that conversation with the next president of the United States.

n

Let’s turn the page as it relates to the new, incoming president. We’d like him to have the spirit of the current president and have the backs of people so we can recover. I want him to visit and understand the magnitude of this scope, and what happened to the American people that happen to reside here in California.

n

I’m not interested in politicising an event like this. I don’t like the banality of it. I don’t like the inhumanity of that.

n

I would like people to focus on a collaboration between the executive in Washington DC and in the state of California to help rebuild a community that’s been completely ravaged.”

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The LA fire department issued a new immediate evacuation order at 7pm local time on Friday for the Palisades fire. It affects the following areas:

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It covers Sunset Boulevard north to Encino Reservoir and from the 405 Freeway west to Mandeville Canyon.

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The area was previously under an evacuation warning, but it is now an immediate evacuation order.

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Earlier, US officials declared a public health emergency due to the California fires.

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The LA department of public health said it had declared a local health emergency and issued a public health officer order in response “to the widespread impacts of the ongoing multiple critical fire events and windstorm conditions”. The order applies to all areas of Los Angeles county.

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In a statement, the department said:

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The fires, coupled with strong winds, have severely degraded air quality by releasing hazardous smoke and particulate matter, posing immediate and long-term risks to public health.

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It advises anyone who must go outside for long periods of time in areas with heavy smoke or where ash is present to wear an N95 or P100 mask.

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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the California wildfires that have devastated six neighborhoods of Los Angeles county, killed at least 11 people and damaged or destroyed more than 12,000 structures.

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Firefighters finally started gaining control over two major wildfires on the eastern and western flanks of Los Angeles on Friday as fierce winds that supercharged the fires for days eased.

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With thousands of people suddenly homeless and the thickening smoke leading US officials to declare a public health emergency, firefighters said they were making progress in arresting the Palisades fire on the western edge of the city and the Eaton fire in its foothills, Reuters reported.

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After burning out of control for days, despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters attacking the blazes from the air and on the ground, the Palisades fire was 8% contained and the Eaton 3%. Cal Fire had listed containment levels of both fires at 0% until Friday. Even so, the two big fires combined had consumed 35,000 acres (14,100 hectares) or 54 square miles.

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About 153,000 people remained under evacuation orders and another 166,800 faced evacuation warnings, with a curfew in place for all evacuation zones, Los Angeles county sheriff Robert Luna said.

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Seven neighboring states, the federal government and Canada have rushed aid to California, bolstering aerial teams dropping water and fire retardant on the flaming hills and crews on the ground attacking fire lines with hand tools and hoses.

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Six wildfires are currently raging in Los Angeles county. They included at last count:

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  The Palisades fire, at 21,317 acres and 8% containment

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  The Eaton fire, at 13,690 acres and 3% containment

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  The Kenneth fire, at 1,052 acres and 50% containment

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  The Hurst fire, at 771 acres and 37% containment

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  The Lidia fire, at 395 acres and 98% containment

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  The Archer fire, at 19 acres and 0% containment

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  Six deaths have been confirmed in the Eaton fire and five in the Palisades. As family members have been alerted to the loss of their loved ones, six of the victims have been publicly identified. Law enforcement officials expect the death toll to rise once weather and fire conditions allow cadaver dogs and detectives into the burn zones.

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  Conditions in the Los Angeles area were forecast to improve through the weekend, with sustained winds slowing to about 20mph (32km/h), gusting between 35-50mph, according to the National Weather Service, a respite from recent wind gusts of 80mph. “It’s not as gusty, so that should help firefighters,” NWS meteorologist Allison Santorelli said, adding that conditions were still critical with low humidity and dry vegetation.

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  Forecasters predicted another red flag warning would be issued for Monday.

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  Fire chief Kristin Crowley criticised city officials over water supply issues and budget cuts that she says hindered her department’s ability to fight the Palisades fire. The water supply has become a focal point, with California governor Gavin Newsom calling for an investigation into the shortage.

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  Newsom has invited Donald Trump to visit the state and tour the LA wildfires’ devastation. Trump visited the state six years ago in the wake of the Camp fire, the most destructive fire in California history, which hit the town of Paradise.

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  The state of California issueda one-year moratoriumpreventing insurance companies from canceling or refusing to renew home policies in zip codes impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires.

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  Fire agencies are investigating whether Southern California Edison’s utility infrastructure sparked a brush fire that is still burning in a Los Angeles suburb, SCE said on Friday, adding no determination has been made. SCE, a unit of US utility Edison International, said in a filing to its regulators that a downed conductor was discovered at a tower associated with its Eagle Rock – Sylmar 220 kV circuit. “SCE does not know whether the damage observed occurred before or after the start of the fire,” it said.

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Thanks for joining our live coverage of the Los Angeles wildfires today. The sun is setting in California and this blog is now closing. You can read our full report on the fires today here.

Here are the top headlines from this afternoon and evening:

• There are four wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles county. They include:

  • The Palisades fire, at 23,654 acres and 11% containment

  • The Eaton fire, at 14,117 acres and 15% containment

  • The Kenneth fire, at 1,052 acres and 90% containment

  • The Hurst fire, at 799 acres and 76% containment

• Eleven fatalities have been officially confirmed in the Palisades and Eaton fires. As family members have been alerted to the losses of their loved ones, eight of the victims have been publicly identified. Law enforcement officials expect the death toll to rise once weather and fire conditions allow cadaver dogs and detectives into the burn zones.

• In response to criticism over water supply issues, the LA department of public works released a statement “correcting misinformation” about the lack of water to fight the Palisades fire this week. The statement was released one day after the chief of the LA fire department, Kristin Crowley, told Fox LA that her firefighters had been hamstrung when hydrants ran dry in certain parts of the Palisades on Wednesday morning.

• Firefighters deployed from Mexico arrived in Los Angeles Saturday afternoon. Canadian and Texan firefighters are also on their way to the Golden state.

• California’s governor, Gavin Newsom,has doubled the deployment of the state’s national guard to Los Angeles amid the wildfires.

• Newsom has also launched a website aimed at addressing misinformation about the Los Angeles area wildfires. CaliforniaFireFacts.com, a branch of Newsom’s own website, includes information about water availability, forest land management and LA’s fire department budget.

• The New York Post published aerial images taken by paparazzi the same day that a drone grounded a firefighting Super Scooper aircraft. The images were captured by London Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based celebrity photography company founded by London-trained paparazzo Giles Harrison.

Sag-Aftra donates $1m to assist members affected by LA fires

Sag-Aftra, the union representing 160,000 actors and performers, will donate $1m to “assist members experiencing hardship caused by the Los Angeles fires”.

“The very essence of a labor union is solidarity: that we all work to elevate each other during times of stability, and we’re there for each other in times of crisis. The devastation is hard to fathom, even for those of us living in it,” union president Fran Drescher said in a statement.

Many members of the film industry – which has already canceled and postponed numerous premieres, awards shows and filming as a result of the fires – call the Los Angeles area home.

As the sun sets in Los Angeles, here are a selection of photographs from the fifth day since wildfires broke out in southern California:

Robert Mackey

Even as firefighters battle to save Los Angeles from wildfires, city officials continue to argue over the impact of a large budget cut last year on the fire department’s ability to contain the fires.

Writing on Bluesky late Friday night, the Los Angeles city controller, Kenneth Mejia, took fire chief Kristin Crowley’s side. Mejia pointed out that although salaries for firefighters were increased late last year, a city budget cut of $17m had forced the department to eliminate 61 civilian support positions.

Speaking to CNN on Friday night, Crowley said the cut did “negatively impact our ability to carry out our mission”.

“The $17m budget cut, and elimination of our civilian positions, like our mechanics, did, and has, and will continue to severely impact our ability to repair apparatus. So with that, we have over 100 fire apparatus out of service. And having these apparatus, and the proper amount of mechanics, would have helped,” she said.

“Seeing City officials in the press ignore the severe impacts of these budget cuts, especially the ones covering for their poor budget decisions to cut a majority of departments’ budgets & even AFTER Chief Crowley told them about the impacts these cuts have had, is DISGRACEFUL,” Mejia wrote.

“BTW, what’s not being talked about is that Chief Crowley requested $914,975,620 for this current fiscal year’s budget which started last July. INSTEAD, the Fire Department got $819,637,423, a budget cut of $17,553,814 from their prior year’s adopted budget of $837,191,237.”

The Palisades fire has grown by about 2,000 acres as firefighters struggle to halt the blaze’s encroachment on the Brentwood and Encino neighborhoods of Los Angeles, where the University of California Los Angeles and the Getty Center are on high alert.

The fire, which started the day at 21,596 acres, grew to 23,654 acres late Saturday afternoon, according to the California department of forestry and fire protection. The fire remains 11% contained.

California governor Gavin Newsom has launched a website aimed at addressing misinformation around the Los Angeles area wildfires.

“There is an astonishing amount of mis- and dis-information being spread online – much of it by so-called leaders and partisan media outlets who seek to divide this country for their own political gain,” Newsom said. “It breaks my heart that families in Los Angeles don’t just have to worry about the fires but also this malicious disinformation as well.”

CaliforniaFireFacts.com, a branch of Newsom’s own website, includes information about water availability, forest land management and LA’s fire department budget.

On Saturday, Newsom also took to denouncing various social media posts from platforms like NewsMax and Fox News, and figures like Elon Musk.

“This is false. Oregon has courageously sent CA some of their best firefighters and equipment — all have been here for days fighting these blazes. To say otherwise is not only incorrect, it’s offensive to the brave men and women who are fighting on the frontlines right now,” he wrote in one post.

Firefighters from Mexico arrive in Los Angeles

Firefighters deployed from Mexico have arrived in Los Angeles, according to the California governor, Gavin Newsom.

In a social media post, Newsom shared footage of a military plane bearing a Mexican flag arriving at Los Angeles international airport. “California is immensely grateful to our neighbors’ support in the fight against the wildfires in Los Angeles,” the governor wrote.

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the country would deploy firefighters and first responders to California in a press conference Friday morning.

“We are going to provide support. Not only because the people and government of Mexico have always been generous, but also because there are many Mexicans in this area of the United States,” she said.

“I feel very happy,” one of the Mexican firefighters told NBC News from the tarmac while readying to deploy. “It’s a pleasure to be able to help all our countrymen and also our neighboring country.”

A longtime Malibu resident, artist and surfer Randall Miod, who was known among friends as “Crawdaddy” or “Craw”, has been identified as a victim of the Palisades fire.

Miod, 55, had lived in a house he nicknamed the Crab Shack, which he shared with his cat The Bu, since 1993.

“He loved Malibu. That was his life,” friend Corina Cline told the Washington Post. “He wasn’t rich. He lived in that little red shack that was kind of run-down.”

“[His home] was his prized possession. That’s the one and only house he ever owned,” his mother, Carol Smith, toldCNN. “He just felt so blessed to be able to live in Malibu. That was his dream come true because he’d been surfing since he was a teenager.”

His determination to protect the home led him to stay even after the fires began, Smith said. She added that detectives had found human remains in the home as they inspected the burn zone.

At least 11 people have died in the wildfires surging across the Los Angeles area. As local law enforcement scramble to identify victims and inform their families, details are emerging about seven of the Los Angeles residents killed in some of the worst wildfires to hit the western city in its history.

The Guardian’s Marina Dunbar, Cecilia Nowell, Michael Sainato and agencies report:

On Friday, officials attributed five deaths to the Palisades fire and six to the Eaton fire, while the family of a 12th victim came forward about the loss of their loved one in the Palisades fire.

Rory Sykes, 32

Australian former child actor Rory Sykes, 32, died after his mother was unable to evacuate him. Sykes, who was born blind and had cerebral palsy, was living in a cottage on his family’s Malibu estate. His mother, Shelley Sykes, who was recovering from a broken arm, said she couldn’t move him.

Annette Rossilli, 85

Annette Rossilli, 85, died in the Palisades fire, the home health company caring for her told CNN.

Victor Shaw, 66

Victor Shaw, 66, was the first of the fatalities to be named, after he died in the Eaton fire raging to the north-east of LA while attempting to extinguish flames at his home of 55 years in Altadena.

Anthony Mitchell, 67, and Justin Mitchell, early 20s

Anthony Mitchell, 67, who was an amputee, and his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, were identified as two of the wildfire victims in Altadena. They died as they were waiting for an ambulance, according to Mitchell’s daughter, Hajime White.

Rodney Nickerson, 82

Rodney Nickerson, 82, also of Altadena, died in his home, according to his daughter, Kimiko Nickerson, who said he thought he would be OK waiting the fire out in his house after living through several fires in his 57 years in the home.

Erliene Kelley

Erliene Kelley, a retired pharmacy technician in Altadena who lived very close to Shaw and Nickerson, also died at home in the Eaton fire, the New York Times reported, citing relatives.

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Residents have organized a donation center including free food at a gas station on the Altadena-Pasadena border.

In an interview with CalMatters, one of the residents who identified himself as George said he had set up the center to receive donations and to donate to people:

We have all kinds of supplies, clothes, hygiene, pet food, water. We have a little bit of everything.

Describing his idea to set up the center, George said:

It was a random idea between me and a friend early this morning … At the beginning it was just water, then it became all of this. It was unplanned.”

Last night I met George who set up an impromptu donation center at a gas station at the border of Altadena / Pasadena.

He kept it going past curfew, even as national guard closed this area off.

People all around the neighborhood were stopping by hot meals, clothes, supplies. pic.twitter.com/n64rBTdWaE

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) January 11, 2025

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Last night I met George who set up an impromptu donation center at a gas station at the border of Altadena / Pasadena.

He kept it going past curfew, even as national guard closed this area off.

People all around the neighborhood were stopping by hot meals, clothes, supplies. pic.twitter.com/n64rBTdWaE

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) January 11, 2025

Newsom doubles national guard deployment to Los Angeles

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has doubled the deployment of the state’s national guard to Los Angeles amid the wildfires there.

In a statement on Saturday, Newsom announced that he had increased the state’s national guard personnel to 1,680, doubling the number of guards on the ground.

Newsom said:

We are continuing to rush in resources to rapidly respond to the firestorm in Los Angeles fueled by hurricane-force winds. The men and women of the California national guard are working day and night to help Los Angeles residents during their greatest time of need. We are grateful for their continued bravery and commitment to be of service to others.”

So far, California has mobilized more than 12,000 personnel including firefighters, guard service members, highway patrol officers and transportation teams to help fight the fires.

Moreover, the response efforts include more than 1,660 pieces of firefighting apparatus, including more than 1,150 engines, more than 60 aircraft, dozers and more than 100 water tenders to aid in putting out the fires.

Both Canada and Mexico have sent firefighters to help Los Angeles fight the blazes.

In a post on X, Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said of the volunteer group: “We are a country of generosity and solidarity.”

Meanwhile, the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, sent crews, aircraft and equipment from Canada to southern California to help battle the fires.

Cecilia Nowell

With help from personnel deployed from across the United States and neighboring countries, California firefighters are starting to make progress containing the devastating blazes that have wrecked the Los Angeles area.

Here’s a selection of photographs capturing their work in recent days:

Cecilia Nowell

About a fifth of fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades ran dry on Tuesday night due to “extreme water demand”, according to LA’s department of public works. But all hydrants were fully operational ahead of the fire, the agency said in a statement “correcting misinformation” about the water system.

“Any assertion that fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades were broken before the Palisades fire is misleading and false,” the statement reads. “LADWP’s fire hydrant repair list was current and updated, and all reported fire hydrants were fully operational in the Pacific Palisades and in LA’s Westside communities prior to the fire.”

“Water pressure in the system was lost due to unprecedented and extreme water demand to fight the wildfire without aerial support,” the statement added.

It also addressed the Santa Ynez reservoir, which was empty at the time of the fire – a fact that LA’s fire chief, Kristin Crowley, told reporters Friday she was not alerted to.

The department of public works “was required to take the Santa Ynez Reservoir out of service to meet safe drinking water regulations. To commission the support and resources to implement repairs to Santa Ynez, LADWP is subject to the city charter’s competitive bidding process which requires time,” the statement read.