Smoke eaters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department were working in a burned-down Altadena neighborhood on Thursday when they came across two suspicious people who were leaving one of the

Citing airborne contaminants and a lack of running water, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shut down the Altadena sheriff’s station Thursday in the aftermath of the Eaton fire.

Radio reports reveal the scramble to contain the Eaton fire as it exploded from a 10-acre brush fire to a devastating 14,000-acre blaze that destroyed thousands of homes.

TELL US WHAT YOU KIND OF SAW YESTERDAY AND WHAT YOU’RE SEEING NOW THIS MORNING WHEN WE FIRST DESCENDED INTO THE AREA, WE CAME OFF THE GRAPEVINE CAME INTO THE GREATER LOS ANGELES, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA,

SHE JOINS US LIVE FROM ALTADENA, THE PLACE OF THE EATON FIRE. AND THERE’S JUST SO MUCH DESTRUCTION. ANDREA. LISA, IT’S JUST YOU DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW BAD IT IS UNTIL YOU’RE HERE ON THE GROUND. WE’RE SEEING THE DEVASTATION FIRSTHAND.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures, officials said, scorching more than 60 square miles and displacing tens of thousands of people.

Firefighters continue working to contain the Eaton Fire that has burned Altadena and northern Pasadena. Here’s how the blaze grew, hour by hour.

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods this week, killing at least 11 people and destroying thousands of homes, the city suddenly found itself in survival mode.

The fire is has burned about 200 acres of brush in the Eaton Canyon area about Altadena, according to Los Angeles County firefighters.

Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Anthony Marrone ... threatening approximately 8,200 homes in and around Altadena and Pasadena, California, population 40,000," said the statement from ...

The Eaton fire continues to burn in the Altadena area below the Angeles National Forest Sunday, with 16 deaths reported in the Eaton Canyon area.