IN PHOTOS | Los Angeles-area landmarks before and after the wildfires
CBC News | Posted: January 10, 2025 5:35 PM | Last Updated: January 10
At least 10 dead and over 10,000 structures devoured by wildfires that began Tuesday
The California wildfires ripping through the Los Angeles area have killed at least 10 people, devoured over 10,000 structures and triggered evacuation orders affecting 180,000 people.
Here's a look at some of the landmarks before and after the wildfires, which include the two biggest ones, the Palisades Fire in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighbourhood in Los Angeles, and the Eaton Fire in the Altadena section of Pasadena, Calif.
The Eaton Fire, which started Tuesday evening, has grown to about 5,476 hectares, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). And it has destroyed over 5,000 structures, such as homes, apartment buildings, businesses, outbuildings and vehicles.
Among the many structures was the Altadena Community Church, founded in 1940, and destroyed by the wildfire in downtown Altadena on Wednesday.
"To all the faith communities, including Pasadena Jewish Center and St. Mark's Episcopal across the street who also lost their buildings, we send our love and condolences and always our prayers," the church posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday.
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(Chris Pizzello/The Associated Press)
In downtown Altadena, Mendocino Street is pictured in a screenshot from Google Maps on July 2022.
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The same street is photographed on Wednesday as people make their way across the intersection amid the wildfire smoke and poor air quality.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Open for 26 years, the Bunny Museum, which said it's the world's only museum about everything bunny, burned down on Wednesday. "Saved only a few bunny items. Saved the cats and bunnies," the museum wrote in a post on its Facebook page, adding it was the last of the buildings around it to burn.
(Bunny Museum/Facebook)
(Chris Pizzello/The Associated Press)
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In these aerial views, satellite images show the before and after of houses burned by the Eaton Fire near Marathon Road in Altadena, on Wednesday.
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The Palisades Fire, which started Tuesday morning, has grown to around 7,991 hectares, according to Cal Fire. It has destroyed over 5,300 structures.
The Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church is among those destroyed structures.
(Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church/Facebook, Agustin Paullier/AFP)
These satellite stills show homes and businesses before and after the Palisades Fire, along Pacific Coast Highway and Tuna Canyon in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, 2024, and on Wednesday, respectively.
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And this animation shows homes in a residential area of the Pacific Palisades before and after the fire, on Oct. 20, 2024, and Thursday, respectively.
Maxar Technologies