California fire live updates: The Walt Disney company has pledged $15 million for “initial and immediate response and rebuilding efforts,” reported the Hollywood Reporter.

“As this tragedy continues to unfold, The Walt Disney Company is committed to supporting our community and our employees as we all work together to recover and rebuild from this unbelievable devastation,” said Disney CEO Bob Iger.

California fire live updates: “A miracle has happened. We managed to get to our property and our home, that we were told is gone forever, is still standing. In this hellish landscape ‘standing’ is relative, but smoke and other damage is not like the utter destruction around us,” tweets actor James Woods.

California fire live updates: The fire in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, the largest among six active wildfires in the Los Angeles area, has destroyed more than 5,300 structures since it began on Tuesday, according to officials.

California fire live updates: While Palisades, the largest of the six active wildfires, has been 8% contained, Lidia Fire has been 98% contained.

California fire live updates: “This is NOT an evacuation alert. An evacuation warning has been issued to a zone adjacent to UCLA due to the Palisades fire. We are asking Bruins on campus to remain vigilant and be ready to evacuate, should the alert be extended to our campus,” says University of California, Los Angeles.

California fire live updates: California Governor Gavin Newsom has invited President-elect Donald Trump to visit California. The suggestion came at a time when Newsom is facing massive flak in the wake of horrific flames that have ravaged Los Angeles County. On his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump blasted the Democratic Governor over the havoc caused by massive wildfire and demanded his resignation. Read more

California fire live updates: “California is preventing insurance companies from canceling home coverage for LA wildfire victims in impacted zip codes over the next year. The folks in these communities have suffered enough. They should not have to deal with the stress of home insurance on top of it all,” California governor Gavin Newsom tweets.

California fire live updates: A blind Australian former child actor, Rory Callum Sykes, was killed when flames from the Palisades Fire, one of the massive wildfires in California, engulfed his family’s Malibu cottage, with his mother alleging that water supplies ran out, The New York Post reported. Read more

California fire live updates: Sean “Diddy” Combs, the disgraced rapper who is awaiting trial in his sex trafficking charge in May, seems to be unaffected at a time when several celebrities are losing their houses to the raging wildfires in southern California.

The singer’s house, which is situated 200 South Mapleton Drive, is not in the line of the fires raging across Southern California, Newsweek reported.

California fire live updates: According to the US Storm Prediction Center, dry winds will raise the risk of critical fire weather conditions across Southern California late Saturday and likely persist through the first half of the coming week, leaving millions in peril.

California fire live updates: Wildfires raging in the Los Angeles have turned thousands of structures into ashes and rubble, and forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes.

Powered by the Santa Ana winds, the fires started on January 7, Tuesday, and quickly spread to an area larger than the size of San Francisco. Of the four major blazes, the one in the upscale Pacific Palisades area has proved to be the most destructive one so far. Read more

California fire live updates: According to reports, the two Hollywood stars have donated clothes to The Coop, a Beverly Hills store collecting essentials for those affected

California fire live updates: Amid the raging wildfires in Los Angeles, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and her 16-year-old son, Knox, have been seen taking proactive steps to help those in need.

On Thursday, the mother-son duo was photographed shopping for supplies, such as food and water, to assist those affected by the devastating fires, as per Page Six.

California fire live updates: Kim Kardashian has recently come under fire for promoting her clothing line SKIMS as Los Angeles wildfires continue to wreak havoc across the city. The 44-year-old was dubbed “tone deaf” after her company shared multiple posts about its winter sale on Instagram just hours after the initial Pacific Palisades fire broke out. Read more

California fire live updates: “I hope you are all doing OK !!! I had to evacuate my home and I’m driving 4 hours to a hotel !!! I’m posting these adorable shoes to lift people’s spirits !!! Most people may not even be on their phones !!! I wasn’t the past two days because I had no electricity to charge and I just got my phone back !!! I pray you’re all doing well and I send my love,” singer Britney Spears wrote on Instagram.

California fire live updates: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, were filmed seen hugging people and speaking to emergency crews at the Pasadena Community Centre in Los Angeles.

California fire live updates: The most expensive house in Pacific Palisades valued at $125 million ( ₹10,770 crore approx), has been destroyed by the raging wildfires that have swept across Los Angeles, DailyMail.com reported. Read more

California fire live updates: “Saddened by the loss of life and the widespread destruction,” Pope Francis said, according to Vatican’s number two Pietro Parolin.

California fire live updates: Those who want to help can reach out to Project Camp, Boys and Girls Clubs of Malibu, GoFundMe, Global Empowerment Mission and bstrong, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, California Fire Foundation, Watch Duty, Pasadena Humane Society, and California Community Foundation. Read more

California fire live updates: 2024 was the world’s warmest on record globally, and the first calendar year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above its pre-industrial levels.

The official declaration was made on Friday by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union’s Earth observation program. It comes as wildfires continue to tear through Los Angeles, California – a disaster scientists say was made worse by climate change.

California fire live updates: Lightning is the most common cause of fires in the U.S., according to the National Fire Protection Association, but investigators quickly dismissed it as a factor. There were no reports of lightning in the Palisades area or in the surrounding terrain of the Eaton Fire, which started in east Los Angeles County and has already caused the destruction of hundreds of homes. Read more

California fire live updates: Amid raging wildfires in Los Angeles, over 10,000 structures, including many homes, have been destroyed. In the midst of evacuations, countless pets were separated from their owners, getting lost in the chaos.

In a heartwarming moment from Altadena, ABC World News Tonight shared footage of a scared dog seeking help from a firefighter during a massive blaze. The video shows the firefighter petting the dog with one hand while using the other to battle the flames. Watch

California fire live updates: Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered a “full independent review” of the city’s utilities, describing the lack of water supplies during the initial fires as “deeply troubling.”

“We need answers to how that happened,” he wrote in an open letter.

Residents like Nicole Perri, whose home in the upscale Pacific Palisades burnt down, told AFP that officials “completely let us down.”

“They let us, the ordinary people, burn,” added Nicholas Norman, across the city in Altadena.

California fire live updates: With scores of firefighters struggling to douse the series of blazes in Los Angeles wildfires, hydrants running ‘completely dry’ posed a devastating challenge to the operations which have been underway since Tuesday in the Californian city housing Hollywood and posh celebrity residences.

The series of fires that started spreading on Tuesday continue to ravage southern California, leaving a trail of devastation across the Los Angeles area, which is home to America’s film industry. Read more

California fire live updates: Edison International’s Southern California utility said fire agencies are investigating whether the company’s equipment was involved in the ignition of the Hurst Fire near San Fernando.

A downed conductor was discovered at a tower associated with the Eagle Rock Sylmar 220 kV circuit, the company said in a regulator filing Friday, citing preliminary information. Still, Southern California Edison said it doesn’t know whether the damage occurred before or after the start of the fire.