Los Angeles County Wildfires: Death Toll Unknown, Thousands of Structures Destroyed and Tens of Thousands Flee

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Several major wildfires are burning, mostly still uncontained, in Los Angeles County. Officials have confirmed at least seven deaths, but warn the actual toll will remain unclear until it’s safe for investigators to access neighborhoods. Nearly 180,000 people have been impacted by evacuation orders since Tuesday. According to authorities, more than 10,000 structures have burned in the Palisades and Eaton fires. Anderson speaks to Aaron Samson, who evacuated with his elderly father-in-law thanks to the kindness of two strangers. Also, veterinarian Dr. Annie Harvilicz offers tips to those with pets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	And good evening. We are reporting tonight from a staging area along the Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades, where we have spent the day. I want to show you some images from Malibu from the Pacific Palisades and from the Topanga Canyon area where my team and I were much of today. You just get a sense of all the
0:57.3	activity that has been going on in this area. And of course, this is just one of the fires.
1:02.4	The Palisades Fire is one of the fires, zero containment at this point. The other, the Eden Fire,
1:08.2	zero containment at this point. Fifteen hundred firefighters are focused on
1:12.3	the Eden Fire. That's the area that hit Altadena where I was yesterday, and that is still very
1:18.9	active as well. There is so much to tell you about over the course of the next hour. The National
1:24.1	Guard have been called in, according to authorities.
1:30.5	There have been some looters who have been arrested.
1:32.3	That is obviously a concern.
1:33.7	Another concern.
1:37.3	There are so many things that firefighters have to deal with now.
1:43.3	I want to, as I told you, we spent the day up in Topanga, the Topanga Canyon area.
1:47.0	It is a very different terrain, obviously, than in Altadena. It is mountainous terrain, and it presents a lot of challenges for firefighters. I want to show you some of what we saw over the last eight or so hours.
1:56.0	As of this afternoon, the Palisades fire, which we are right now on the northern edge of,
2:03.3	is the one that concerns fire crews most.
2:06.4	Obviously, they are battling all the fires that are going on.
2:09.6	You can see a helicopter that's used to drop water flying over this area.
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