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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.

CAL FIRE declared the Palisades Fire 100% contained on 31 January 2025 after 24 days, at 23,448 acres, with 6,845 structures destroyed and 12 people dead.

CAL FIRE declared the Eaton Fire 100% contained on 31 January 2025 at 14,021 acres, after it had destroyed 9,419 structures in Altadena and Pasadena and killed 19 people.

Los Angeles County sued SCE and Edison International alleging their equipment started the Eaton Fire, seeking at least hundreds of millions of dollars for destroyed parks, roads, cleanup and lost taxes.

Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison in Los Angeles federal court, alleging its equipment sparked the Eaton Fire and seeking more than $40 million for fighting it and restoring 8,000 acres of Angeles National Forest.

Federal agents arrested Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, in Florida on a complaint alleging he set the New Year's Day Lachman Fire that smouldered underground and flared up as the Palisades Fire on 7 January.

Southern California Edison began taking claims in a voluntary program that pays Eaton Fire survivors for lost homes, smoke damage, injury and death in exchange for not suing, open until 30 November 2026.

After an 18-month investigation with CAL FIRE, LA County Fire concluded that electrical arcing on an out-of-service Southern California Edison tower in Eaton Canyon dropped molten metal that started the Eaton Fire.

The first test trial in the mass lawsuit against Southern California Edison over the Eaton Fire, with eight plaintiffs, opens before Judge Laura Seigle in Los Angeles Superior Court.