LA fires live tracker: Map shows where hellish California infernos are heading next – check updating view of Palisades, Kenneth, Eaton and more [Video]

21:20 EST 07 Jan 2025, updated 11:56 EST 10 Jan 2025

Devastating wildfires are tearing through Los Angeles, leaving apocalyptic scenes in their wake.

Enormous 120ft flames have destroyed thousands of homes, businesses, schools and places of worship, causing an estimated $49billion (£40bn) worth of damage so far in communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena.

Some of Hollywood’s biggest names have seen their homes razed to the ground.

In Pacific Palisades – a hillside area on the coast dotted with celebrity properties – the homes of actors Sir Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, John Goodman and Anna Faris were destroyed.

Ferocious winds combined with an extensive drought created a ‘perfect storm’ for the infernos, which firefighters are struggling to contain.

Tens of thousands of residents have had to be evacuated.  

The so-called Palisades Fire between Santa Monica and Malibu on LA’s western flank and the Eaton Fire in the east near Pasadena already rank as the most destructive in …