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Reported at about 10:30 a.m. in the Santa Monica Mountains during a Santa Ana windstorm, the fire burned 23,448 acres through Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu, destroyed 6,845 structures and killed 12 people.

Starting at about 6:18 p.m. below Edison transmission towers in Eaton Canyon, the wind-driven fire swept into Altadena, burning 14,021 acres, destroying 9,419 structures and killing 19 people.

A wind-driven wildfire in the Otay Mountain Wilderness near the Mexican border forced evacuations around Otay Lakes Road and threatened the mountain’s communications site before crews contained it a week later.