The Palisades Fire started Jan. 7 during a Santa Ana windstorm in Pacific Palisades. Nearly three weeks later, evacuation orders are lifted.

A number of considerable mudflows forced the closure of multiple roads in the Palisades Fire burn scar on Sunday.

The amount of rainfall Los Angeles has received isn’t quite enough to keep the fire season from dragging into February. But the possibility for isolated showers will remain across the L.A. Basin into Tuesday.

Jan. 8, 1:25 p.m. PST The Palisades Fire in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades—an affluent coastal neighborhood—exploded to 15,832 acres, according to Cal Fire, making it the largest fire of the four burning in Los Angeles County as of Wednesday afternoon.

All Malibu-area schools will be closed on Monday due to the risk posed by unsafe road condition in the area following heavy rain near the Palisades Fire burn scar.

Twenty-eight people have died across the Los Angeles area. Officials have said the true death toll isn’t known as the fires continue to burn.

California is considering a bill that would allow insurers and victims of climate-driven natural disasters to sue the oil industry for damages. State Sen.

Rain is easing after Southern California’s first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours that aided firefighters but caused ash, mud and debris to flow across streets in wildfire-burned areas.

The latest order by Newsom also mobilizes debris removal and cleanup with an eye toward recovery, and permits federal hazmat crews to start cleaning up properties as a key step in getting people back to their properties safely and to mitigate the risk of mudslides and flooding by hastening efforts to remove debris.

Officials closed part of Pacific Coast Highway in the Palisades fire area on Sunday, Caltrans said, as rain poured down across the Los Angeles area and burn scars in Southern California were under a flood watch that will last until 4 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

As firefighters continue to work toward containing the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, Eater reached out to restaurant operators across the area to understand how they are contending with the scope of the tragedy,

L.A. County's first significant storm in more than eight months has already forced the closure of I-5, unleashed mud on roadways, and closed Malibu's public schools.