LA's Eaton Fire has damaged thousands of buildings: fire chief

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The number of structures damaged or destroyed by the Eaton Fire, one of two massive Los Angeles wildfires still burning uncontained now stands at 4,000 to 5,000, officials said on Thursday (Jan 09).  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00There are so many active situations here between these two neighborhoods, fire approaching both

00:04of these neighborhoods. I've got to tell you, in some cases you can already see where the brush

00:12clearance behind some of these homes has already spared the homes. If the brush clearance wasn't

00:18there. So the Eaton fire is now estimated to be 13,690 acres. It's grown since our morning press

00:26conference because the fire is making a run towards the historic Mount Wilson area. We are

00:34still at zero percent containment, but we now have a better estimation of the number of fire

00:41personnel assigned to the incident. We're now at 1,527 personnel assigned and like this morning,

00:51additional mutual aid resources to continue to arrive to assist in the firefight.

00:58This morning we did have a firefighter suffer a significant injury in a fall. That firefighter

01:05is resting comfortably at an area hospital. He's in stable condition and he is expected to make a

01:11full recovery. We now have a confirmation that we have a potential for over four to five thousand

01:20structures damaged or destroyed. I have not had any reports that the LA County Fire Department

01:27has suffered low water pressure or ran out of water here at this fire. We're in close coordination

01:37with the Department of Public Works. We speak to them often and I haven't been advised of any

01:43issues that we've had. I know that there is a boil water directive for the Eaton fire

01:50because of the high amount of ash that's in the water. But for firefighting water,

01:56I haven't heard that we ran out of water or that we had low water pressure.

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