Organizations like the Red Cross are playing a critical role with crews responding from across the country, including Northern California, to provide relief to Los Angeles-are fire victims.

Organizations like the Red Cross are playing a critical role with crews responding from across the country, including Northern California, to provide relief to Los Angeles-are fire victims.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures, officials said, scorching more than 60 square miles and displacing tens of thousands of people.

Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, are burning across Los Angeles.

LA leaders are beginning to ponder a monumental task: rebuilding what was lost in the Southern California wildfires.

Firefighters from Northern California and neighboring Arizona have been sent to Southern California as out-of-control fires rage on in Los Angeles County. Fires began Tuesday afternoon as high-speed winds,

Fanned by strong winds, the wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los Angeles area.

More Northern California fire crews have been sent to SoCal to help with the devastation caused by the Palisades Fire and several others burning through the Los Angeles area. On Tuesday, hurricane-force winds at nearly 100 miles per hour fueled several wildfires that devoured residential and commercial areas in Southern California.

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