The fire chief spoke at a press briefing with Mayor Karen Bass after her supposed ouster. The department said claims of her firing are false.

Within days, the group blossomed into a Bay Area-wide community of people offering to donate items for fire victims.

The Hughes Fire burned some 10,176 acres but that figure held steady throughout the day as 4,000 firefighters dropped water and retardant from the air and used hand tools and hoses on the ground.

This image is not associated with the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. It shows a house that survived an earlier wildfire in Hawaii.

Celebrities were among those who lost their homes in wildfires still burning in greater Los Angeles. But claims that ABC’s "The View" cohost Whoopi Goldberg’s house was destroyed originated on a self-described satire site.

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LOS ANGELES — Celtics guard Jrue Holiday’s home in Ventura County has not been damaged by the Los Angeles wildfires, but returning here this week he has been met with startling reminders of how severely life has changed for so many.

As deadly wildfires obliterated neighbourhoods across Los Angeles, AI-generated clips of the inferno circulated in social media posts presenting them as genuine footage. In the latest case, dramatic footage of streets and hillside engulfed in flames garnered tens of thousands of views online.

Rental scams are nothing new, they’ve been around for years. But in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles fires that have displaced thousands of people,

As deadly wildfires wreaked havoc in a wide area of Los Angeles in January 2025, social media users have shared an old video with a false claim it shows a group of Muslim men trying to put out the fire by offering prayers.

Although the project was to shed light on the lives of those affected by the wildfires, it also taught the students essential social skills.