A neighborhood where the deadly Eaton fire began was mostly spared from the devastation in surrounding Altadena, with the same gusting winds that whipped up the inferno thought to have helped those closest to the ignition point avoid disaster.
In Altadena, the Eaton fire had killed at least five people and burned thousands of structures as of Friday afternoon. The image below shows homes and businesses on Lincoln Avenue before the fire, and after the flames had mostly moved through the area. The satellite image shows dozens of structures destroyed on Friday.
When Nina Raj saw the sky glow orange outside her Altadena home as the Eaton fire approached last Tuesday, the first thing that she packed for evacuation was her seed collection: Matilija poppy seeds, Engelmann oak acorns, California buckeye, sage and buckwheat seeds, along with so many others she had gathered around Eaton Canyon.
An immediate evacuation has been ordered for Mount Wilson and the Observatory as the Eaton Canyon Fire advances. Mount Wilson, above Los Angeles, is home to numerous television and radio transmission towers which are utilized for stations in the greater L.
The massive Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, prompting mandatory evacuations affecting tens of thousands of people and highway closures. Later Tuesday, the Eaton Fire broke out in the foothills of Pasadena on the other side of Los Angeles County.
Satellite images are providing a unique and heartbreaking view of the devastation in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena and Pasadena from two wildfires that have
Unprecedented wildfires in Los Angeles County in California are decimating thousands of structures and displacing thousands of residents.
We're tracking damage assessments from the Eaton and Palisades fires, which destroyed 12,000 structures in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
Meanwhile, 3,000 firefighters are working to control the Eaton Fire ... silhouetted in Malibu, Los Angeles, California, on January 12 A fire fighter from Woodland Hills searches for hotspots ...
A Massachusetts native and her toddler son landed in Boston on Thursday morning after fleeing her home in wildfire-ravaged Hollywood, California, with just the clothes on her back.
Thousands of homes have been destroyed in elite enclaves like Malibu and Pacific Palisades, where median listing prices range from $760,000 to more than $6 million.
Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed more than two dozen people. Weaker winds enabled firefighters to make inroads containing the Palisades and Eaton fires.