<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Authorities are hopeful the tide is turning in the fight against a series of </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/as-wildfires-rage-in-los-angeles-trump-doesnt-offer-much-sympathy-hes-casting-blame/42845f95-edf0-4c9a-9a26-e0ac9b63918a" rel="" target="" title="massive blazes tearing through Los Angeles"><span>massive blazes tearing through Los Angeles</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>More than 10,000 structures have been destroyed by fires in the county, and the death toll has risen to seven.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officials warn the real number of fatalities will remain unclear until they can safely access neighbourhoods.</span></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2025/01/08/11/43/los-angeles-fires-in-pictures-wildfires-race-across-southern-california"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/nAuVFvbf6yw_46YNUqFXAWLUxqQ=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fe3021344-93a3-4564-b083-687affcf9ddc" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/nAuVFvbf6yw_46YNUqFXAWLUxqQ=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fe3021344-93a3-4564-b083-687affcf9ddc 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/--bsScBDhVeN1aGaNtOG2PJ14fY=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fe3021344-93a3-4564-b083-687affcf9ddc 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">Satellite image shows true devastation of fires</div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2025/01/08/11/43/los-angeles-fires-in-pictures-wildfires-race-across-southern-california">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/los-angeles-fires-famous-landmarks-destroyed/6b9fa7b6-9ffd-4fb6-b03b-a0782f349e30"><strong><span>Hollywood landmarks destroyed in wildfires</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But conditions have eased in the city, with winds losing intensity, slowing the spread of the fires.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Governor Gavin Newsom said another of the more threatening blazes, the Sunset fire, has been suppressed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"With more favourable overnight winds, firefighting aircraft were able to safely fly and help put out this blaze," Newsom said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/la-fires-update-los-angeles-wildfires-death-toll-damage-evacuation-orders-latest-news/9cd2c7bb-3f43-41dd-ac6f-165c9c676a83" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Meanwhile, the Palisades fire which close to obliterated the neighbourhoods of Pacific Palisades and Malibu, is now six per cent contained.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As firefighters struggled to contain four major wildfires surrounding the city, a new blaze has broken out, growing rapidly over a few hours. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/la-fires-live-updates-latest-news-as-malibu-and-hollywood-burn/0512218f-c03f-4be7-8ebf-7761b30ac4de" target="" title="Los Angeles fires live updates: Death toll expected to rise as fires rage through Los Angeles"><strong><span>Death toll expected to rise as fires rage through Los Angeles</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It has quickly triggered mandatory evacuations in the area, which has many homes.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But an evacuation order intended for specific areas in the fire's reach was mistakenly sent out to nine million people.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The evacuation order was issued for the entire Los Angeles County, the largest municipality in the US.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But a correction was quickly sent out.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ahead of strong winds forecast in coming days, US President Joe Biden has announced an influx in federal resources.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I'm surging every federal resource possible to Southern California, including hundreds of federal firefighters, 30 firefighting helicopters and planes, 8 DoD C-130s, and 500 military ground-clearing personnel," the president announced.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We're working with (the Department of Defence) to identify what more we can surge."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/la-fires-update-stories-of-heroism-emerge-as-los-angeles-infernos-rage/65d43b8a-1fd8-40a8-8d00-a5894eff3203"><strong><span>'I'm very grateful': Stories of heroism emerge as LA infernos rage</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But President-elect Donald Trump has struck a different tone, accusing Newsom of not providing enough water to southern California.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It's ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!" Trump wrote on social media.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Governor Gavin Newscum should immediately go to Northern California and open up the water main, and let the water flow into his dry, starving, burning State, instead of having it go out into the Pacific Ocean."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump will be sworn in as president in ten days.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>About 180,000 people are unable to return to their homes across Los Angeles County, with evacuation orders still in place.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>And many of those people will have no home to go back to.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As a deterrent to looters, the sheriff's department is preparing to implement a 6pm to 6am curfew.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>If they are unable to implement it tonight, it is hoped to be in place tomorrow.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>EXPLAINER: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/la-fires-2025-what-started-it-everything-to-know-explainer/2542c14a-1c3c-476b-9beb-9db0a9d17fef"><strong><span>Why Los Angeles is experiencing its worst wildfires in winter</span></strong></a></div></div>