Organizations like the Red Cross are playing a critical role with crews responding from across the country, including Northern California, to provide relief to Los Angeles-are fire victims.

Members of the St. Helena Fire Department have battled devastating fires in Northern California. Last Thursday, they rolled into Los Angeles at 2 a.m. to assist in the southern part of the state.

Organizations like the Red Cross are playing a critical role with crews responding from across the country, including Northern California, to provide relief to Los Angeles-are fire victims.

Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, are burning across Los Angeles.

Fires began Tuesday afternoon as high-speed winds, known as the Santa Ana winds, quickly spread flames from a small fire into Pacific Palisades.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures, officials said, scorching more than 60 square miles and displacing tens of thousands of people.

Awareness of doom in Los Angeles, and yet a need to push disaster away, has created a kind of collective psychosis.

Crews are expected to work long, grueling days and will be used to their maximum capacity until they can control the fire.

LA leaders are beginning to ponder a monumental task: rebuilding what was lost in the Southern California wildfires.

Senator John Barrasso said he expects any aid funding that is approved for Californians amid wildfires will have "strings attached."

Californians already are struggling to stay affordably and adequately insured in the face of a nonrenewal and availability crisis.