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Death toll continues to climb as more than 7,500 firefighting personnel are deployed across California, with two of the most ferocious fires at zero percent containment
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At least five people have been killed and many others severely injured as several fast-moving wildfires have torn<\/a> across the Los Angeles County area, leaving thousands of firefighters <\/a>attempting to extinguish the blaze.
Officials said Thursday that while progress had been made on the Sunset, Woodley, Hurst, and Sunswept Fires, more \u201cextreme fire behavior\u201d and wind gusts up to 60mph<\/a> are continuing to challenge firefighting efforts.
\u201cSignificant fire growth remains likely with ongoing or new fires,\u201d forecasters warned.
The Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive natural disasters the city has seen<\/a>, is still not contained. The fire has burned more than 17,200 acres, while the Altadena and Pasadena-based Eaton fire has scorched some 10,600 acres.
The causes of all of the wildfires are under active investigation, but thousands of buildings and businesses have been destroyed.
Nearly 180,000 residents of the cunty are under evacuation orders and nearly 200,000 are under evacuation warnings.
Even more California customers were left without power on Thursday, with nearly 420,000 outages reported by tracker PowerOutage.us<\/a>.
Sheriff Robert Luna said that deputies were touring the affected areas.\u201d
\u201cSome of \u2018em looked like a bomb was dropped in \u2018em,\u201d he said.
\u201cUp and down each one of the blocks I traveled, those houses no longer exist. They are basically rubble,\u201d Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman told reporters on Thursday.
\u201cIt looked apocalyptic. Not since the 1990s when Los Angeles was hit with the fires, the flood, the earthquake and the riots, have I seen such disaster occur here in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy friends have been affected by it,\u201d Succession<\/em> star Kieran Culkin said of the wildfires.
The Los Angeles wildfires may to be the costliest in the nation\u2019s history, analysts told The Wall Street Journal<\/em> <\/a>on Thursday.
Total economic losses from the fires are close to $50 billion, double the estimate of a day earlier, JPMorgan analyst Jimmy Bhullar told the publication.
Insured loss estimates could increase \u201cif the fires are not controlled,\u201d he said.
Although, that sum is less than preliminary damage and economic loss estimates from media forecaster AccuWeather<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are currently 118 crews deployed to restore power in Los Angeles County.
\u201cIf you see a wire down, please call 911 and we will send crews immediately to make the area safe,\u201d Janisse Qui\u00f1ones, CEO and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said Thursday.
\u201cSome customers may experience some longer outages because some power equipment has been damaged or \u201ccompromised\u201d by the fires,\u201d she added.
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