The Palisades Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history, continued to spread with limited containment on Friday.
According to a Cal Fire update issued at 1:57 a.m., the blaze had scorched 19,978 acres in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu and elsewhere in the Santa Monica Mountains. The fire erupted Tuesday morning and, fanned by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, quickly ripped through residential and commercial areas.
More than 5,000 structures have been lost, many of them homes and businesses.
Damage is believed to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
Tens of thousand of people remain under evacuation orders or warnings.
The evacuation order extended throughout the Pacific Palisades to the Pacific Ocean and included areas of Santa Monica, Malibu and Topanga. Residents and businesses in Calabasas remained under an evacuation warning on Friday.