Altadena has not yet experienced issues like these, but that might not last. California prohibits insurance companies from dropping customers in fire-struck areas for at least a year, but ...

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Forecasters in Southern California expect to issue a 'particularly dangerous situation' red flag warning for the coming week as the Santa Ana wind forecast worsens.

On Friday, January 10, 2025, emergency services received a call to Pioneer Park shortly after 11:30 p.m. to head to Azusa to control the blaze, indicating that a man had started the flames and was still at the scene.

A man was arrested on suspicion of purposely starting a brush fire in Azusa, police announced. First responders were called to Pioneer Park shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Friday, according to the Azusa Police Department. There, a witness told officers the man who ignited the blaze was still at the scene.

Coverage of the fires ravaging Altadena, Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, including stories about the devastation, issues firefighters faced and the weather.

Thursday, 8:30 a.m. PST The National Weather Service warned Thursday is a particularly dangerous day for fires in Los Angles and Ventura counties, adding most of both counties are at " critical red flag levels ” with humidity less than 15% and winds that frequently hit 25 mph or greater.

A new fire broke out near Los Angeles’ Bel Air neighborhood early on Thursday as the Hughes fire which was first reported a day earlier in northern Los Angeles County grew rapidly to set ablaze more than 10,000 acres, prompting authorities to issue evacuation orders and warnings to more than 50,000 people.

After a report from The Times, officials have called for an external review into delayed evacuation alerts in western Altadena, during the Eaton fire.

Aerial footage taken from a helicopter flight over fire-damaged areas on Wednesday (January 22) showed the extent of damage and devastation in the city of Altadena, California, which bore the brunt of the Eaton Fire.

In the 1980s and ‘90s, gentrification priced Black residents out of the area, and many moved farther inland. Many of those who could afford to remain lived in large family homes passed down through generations, some of which were leveled in the Eaton fire.

Wednesday, 3:49 p.m. PST The Hughes Fire increased to 8,096 acres, spreading northeast and triggering 12 evacuation warnings and 10 evacuation orders for adjacent areas. Wednesday, 1:17 p.m. PST The Hughes Fire spread to 5,054 acres in a largely mountainous area.