Although the cause of each blaze has yet to be determined, they all burned in or near foothill communities amid gusty winds and dry air and vegetation.

A fire station burned down in North Carolina, destroying a truck bound for California wildfires, officials said. The blaze ravaged Mills River Fire Department’s Station No. 2 early Friday, Jan. 17, according to a spokesperson for Henderson County, North Carolina.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows. The Eaton and Palisades fires that erupted last week have collectively burned almost 4 square miles of highly dense parts of Los Angeles,

Vast areas of Los Angeles have been destroyed since these fires began on 7 January. Thousands of homes and businesses have been lost, and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. We hear from Kelly,

The fires are the second and fourth most destructive in the state’s history. While experts say the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in California is slightly similar to the Los Angeles fires in terms of destruction,