Palisades Fire

January 25, 2025, Saturday

The PALISADES FIRE ignited from an unknown source on January 7, 2025, at 1030 hours, southeast of Palisades Drive in Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles County), California. The fire spread quickly and intensely burning everything including structures in its path and forcing thousands to be evacuated from their homes, businesses, and out of danger’s way. This is one of the two most destructive and deadliest wildfires in 2025. This incident prompted an emergency plea from Local, County and State Fire Officials for their Public Safety (Fire, LE, National Guard) to respond to their critical needs in stopping these wildfires.

Mutual Aid resources responded from all over the United States, which includes a few of those who responded (we apologize if we have forgotten a few states):

  • Washington State
  • Oregon
  • Idaho
  • Utah
  • Statewide California
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Texas
  • Montana

Some of these mutual aid resources returned a few days ago and continue to be demobilized back to their respective fire agencies. Welcome home & thank you Firefighters for all of your tireless efforts, unwavering dedication, compassion, and empathy for others.

There are 2,149 personnel along with 19 copters, 179 engines, six dozers, 15 water tenders, 19 crews, and six other assigned resources.

At the time of this update, the fire destroyed 23,448 acres of chaparral, brush, and grass, 966 damaged, and 6,808 destroyed structures. There have been 11 deaths associated with the fire and four injuries. The cost-to-date for fire suppression and containment efforts has reached a whopping 193 Million Dollars. This does not even start to cover the multiples of millions of dollars in property damage and losses. The State of California will need millions, if not billions of dollars in funding to help rebuild schools, businesses, and homeowners.

The fire behavior is still minimal with smoldering activities, as observed by Fire Officials.

Agencies still remain in Unified Command include:

  • CAL FIRE
  • Los Angeles City FD
  • Los Angeles County FD
  • LAPD
  • Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
  • Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

Folks who were previously evacuated are now being allowed to repopulate the same communities and should remain aware of potential mudslides/mudflows due to forecasted heavy rain in the next few days.

Photo Credits: CAL FIRE / NWS

The cause of the fire is unknown and under investigation.

Ther is an 81% containment status.

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