Massive wildfires roaring through the Los Angeles area left neighborhoods in ruins, killing at least five people and ...
Sheriff Robert Luna said 179,783 people are under evacuation orders due to the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and Lidia fires in Los Angeles County. Another 200,000 residents are under evacuation warnings.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was pumping from aqueducts and groundwater into the system, but demand was so high that it wasn't enough to refill three 1-million-gallon tanks.
Roughly 100,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders. Another 100,000 are under an evacuation warning. The L.A.