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Anderson Cooper 360

More Wildfires Devastating Parts of Los Angeles County; at Least 5 Deaths

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Anderson is on the scene as at least six fires tear across Los Angeles County forcing the evacuations of residents. Anderson shows how the flames destroyed homes and vehicles in one neighborhood of Altadena, California. At least five people are dead. California Governor Gavin Newsom tells Anderson the death toll  is "likely" to rise. Anderson also talks with a mother and her son who lost their home in Pacific Palisades, other survivors and fire officials working to put out the flames.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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reporting for last several hours from this location in altadena. We're going to be broadcasting here over the next hours. The corner of Harriet and Glendon, this entire neighborhood has just been devastated. House after house, this is one of the, in this two, in this one block area, this is one of the few houses which is still kind of actively burning down to the ground. Most of them, many of them have already burned down to the ground. The homeowners said for this house just came back minutes, minutes ago, saw it. And obviously they are just devastated. They were renting it out. This was

1:12.6

their retirement plan. This is the house where they first moved into after they were married.

1:17.6

There are stories like that on every spot where there was once a house on this street.

1:24.8

There are now five active fires going on, separate fires in Los Angeles.

1:29.3

A fifth one has broken out. It's smaller. It's 30% contained. But the four original fires,

1:35.3

which began mostly yesterday, none of those four original fires are contained. As you know,

1:42.3

fire crews have been working around the clock. There are still not

1:47.6

enough firefighters. I talked to Governor Gavin Newsom. I'll play some of that shortly. There are

1:52.2

other firefighters coming in from Western states. There's going to be a press conference from

1:56.8

Karen Bass, the mayor who is overseas, I believe in Ghana, who has come back. She's now

2:01.8

going to be giving a press conference. But it is just, it is, this is a historic fire for, for this

2:08.6

area. It has been dry now for eight months. There's, I think, about a quarter to half an inch

2:12.7

of rain over the last eight months. Nothing forecast for the next two weeks. And water has been an issue.

2:19.8

It's been an issue in the palisades where hydrants went dry, up in the hills and the

2:23.4

mountains. Even in this area, as you'll see in a moment, I talked to one of the firefighters

2:28.5

earlier in the day, and the hydrants were dry. They had run out about two minutes after

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