As of Thursday, the Palisades fire had reached 15,000 acres, spreading to Malibu and Topanga and torching homes and restaurants along the Pacific Coast Highway. One resident told the Washington Examiner ’s video producer Natasha Sweatte that his community is coming together in this time of crisis.

The LADWP issued a boil water notice on Wednesday, Jan. 8, in response to the Pacific Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, urging residents to "only use boiled tap water or bottled water for drinking and cooking purposes" as "disease-causing organisms" may now be found in the water.

Wildfires have devastated a celebrity-filled neighborhood in Los Angeles, destroying homes, canceling major industry events, and ravaging a high school featured in movies like ‘Carrie’ and ‘Freaky Friday.

Here's the latest on containment for the fires burning across Southern California as firefighters work to get the blazes under control.

Firefighters are making progress slowing the major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and caused thousands of people to