The California wildfires raging through the Los Angeles area have killed at least 10 people, destroyed more than 10,000 structures and prompted an evacuation order for 180,000 people.
Here’s a look at some of the landmarks before and after the wildfires, which include the two largest, the Palisades Fire in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and the Eaton Fire in the Altadena section of Pasadena, California.
The Eaton fire, which broke out Tuesday night, has grown to about 5,476 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). And it destroyed more than 5,000 structures, such as homes, apartment buildings, commercial buildings, outbuildings and vehicles.
Among the many buildings was the Altadena Community Church, founded in 1940, which was destroyed by a wildfire in downtown Altadena on Wednesday.
“To all faith communities, including the Pasadena Jewish Center and St. Mark’s Episcopal across the street who also lost their buildings, we send our love and condolences and our prayers always,” the church posted on its Facebook page Wednesday.
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In downtown Altadena, Mendocino Street is shown in a July 2022 Google Maps screenshot.
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The same street was photographed on Wednesday as people walk through the intersection amid fire smoke and poor air quality.
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Open for 26 years, the Bunny Museum, which claimed to be the world’s only museum of all things bunny, burned down on Wednesday. “Just saved a few items from the bunnies. Saved the cats and the bunnies,” the museum wrote in a post on its Facebook page, adding that it was the last building to burn down around it.
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In these aerial views, satellite images show the before and after of homes that burned in the Eaton Fire near Marathon Road in Altadena on Wednesday.
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The Palisades Fire, which broke out Tuesday morning, has spread to about 7,991 acres, according to Cal Fire. It destroyed more than 5,300 buildings.
Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church is among those destroyed structures.
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These satellite photos show homes and businesses before and after the Palisades fire, along Pacific Coast Highway and Tuna Canyon in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, 2024, Wednesday.
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And this animation shows homes in the Pacific Palisades residential area before and after the fire, on October 20, 2024, which is Thursday.
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