Palisades, Eaton fires in Southern California 100% contained, officials say

The Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire that burned a full of astir 40,000 acres successful the Los Angeles country person been 100% contained, occurrence officials said connected Friday.

The Palisades Fire burned 23,448 acres connected the westbound broadside of Los Angeles and the Eaton Fire acceptable 14,201 acres ablaze starting connected Jan. 7, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The 2 large fires and respective smaller ones created the worst earthy catastrophe successful Los Angeles County history, sidesplitting 28 radical and damaging oregon destroying much than 16,000 structures, Cal Fire said.

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Vehicles and a location pain arsenic almighty winds fueling devastating wildfires successful the Los Angeles country unit radical to evacuate, astatine the Eaton Fire successful Altadena, California, U.S. January 8, 2025.  (REUTERS/David Swanson)

At the tallness of the fires, 180,000 radical were nether evacuation orders, according to Los Angeles County officials.

Damage and economical losses are estimated astatine much than $250 billion, according to backstage forecaster AccuWeather.

Rain yet fell successful Southern California successful the past week, which aided firefighters successful containing the fires but besides accrued the hazard of flash floods and mudslides successful the hills and the dispersed of toxic worldly near down successful the fire's devastation.

A presumption of homes destroyed by the Eaton Fire connected January 9, 2025, successful Altadena, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Full containment is mostly symbolic astatine this constituent arsenic fires inactive remain isolated successful steep upland terrain, occurrence officials said.

"It's much important erstwhile we accidental guardant advancement is stopped," Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Margaret Stewart told Reuters.

Progress was stopped astir a week aft the Palisades and Eaton fires swept done the region.

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A Super Scooper level drops h2o connected the Palisades occurrence connected Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, successful Pacific Palisades, California. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Stewart said the rainfall was "more of a hindrance" due to the fact that it led to mudslides and blocked roads archetypal responders needed to access.

"Had this rainfall travel 2 weeks ago, it mightiness person been much helpful," Stewart said.

Reuters contributed to this report.