Los Angeles County's first significant storm in more than eight months has already forced the closure of the 5 freeway at the Grapevine, unleashed mud on roadways, and triggered the closure of Malibu's public schools Monday due to dangerous road conditions.

The return of the rain in Los Angeles has triggered Flash Flood Warnings, mudslides and debris flows in burn-scar areas, forcing officials to close roads and schools in the region.

Officials are warning that mudslides could hit the areas affected by the fires as a rainy end to the weekend is expected.

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch effective from 4 p.m. Sunday to 4 p.m. Monday for areas in or near burn scars created by the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hughes Fire and Bridge Fire, the latter blaze of which burned 56,000 acres last fall.

Several local eateries were wiped out entirely by the Eaton and Palisades fires while others have seen a dramatic fall in business.

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles has issued a flash flood warning for the Franklin burn scar and the western portion of the Palisades burn scar, west of Los Flores Canyon until 11 p.m.

The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued an updated flash flood warning at 8:15 p.m. on Sunday in effect until 11 p.m.

He’s here at sunrise, for the 10th morning in a row, to get the latest updates on the fire and to assign his crew tasks for the day. When the Woolsey Fire tore through our hometown in 2019, it devastated our community and claimed over 1,

Ever since the Palisades Fire tore through her Malibu community on Jan. 7, Jessica Davis’s cellphone has been ringing nonstop with calls to search for pets that might have survived.

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Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities