STORY: :: LAFD Air Operations
:: This video taken from a helicopter shows flames
engulfing California's Santa Monica Mountains
:: Given as Los Angeles, California
:: Released on January 11, 2025
The location and the date when the video was filmed could not be independently verified.
Six simultaneous blazes have ripped across the second-largest U.S. city since Tuesday, killing at least 14 people as of Sunday morning. At least 16 others were believed missing.
Over the past 24 hours, the Palisades Fire spread over an additional 1,000 acres (400 hectares), consuming more homes, officials reported.
Cal Fire official Todd Hopkins said that while 11% of the Palisades Fire was now contained, it had burned more than 22,000 acres (8,900 hectares).