Death toll in LA fires reaches 24

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00:00In the news overseas, over the weekend as firefighters exhausted L.A. residents and

00:05fire victims got a breather from the dangerous Santa Ana winds, weather forecasts though

00:10warned Angelinos of the Santa Ana winds picking up early this week to fan the ongoing blazes

00:16into raging and even more apocalyptic scenarios.

00:19The short-lived intermission allowed for responders, rescuers and household residents locked out

00:25of their homes for days to return and survey the damage and check for missing family or

00:29friends still unaccounted for since evacuation began.

00:34As such, the casualty count since the fires began and had stood at 16 entering the week

00:39climbed to 24 with recovery efforts still far from over.

00:45All these deaths have been documented only in the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires where

00:49all the fatalities have sadly obtained with 8 and 16 respectively.

00:55Message damage assessment has been ongoing each day.

00:58The size of the burned area in the Pacific Palisades has reached over 23.7 thousand acres

01:04with the Eaton fire ravaging more than 14.1 thousand acres.

01:09Their combined size equal to the area of San Francisco City.

01:14What's even sadder or scarier is the containment has been 13 percent and 27 percent respectively

01:20thus far.

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