A new wildfire was reported today at 11:34 p.m. in Los Angeles County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this time, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.

One person died on Saturday after a home caught fire in the Silver Lake neighborhood. The fire was first reported at around 4:05 p.m. at a "two-story Craftsman style home" in the 700 block of N. La Fayette Park Place, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said in a statement.

A large fire broke out at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, Calif., Thursday night, causing road closures and shelter-in-place orders. There were no injuries.

Now, the pace of destruction from massive wildfires is accelerating. In a new study published today in the journal Science, researchers have pulled apart these drivers and found that rising average temperatures are contributing to the gargantuan price tags of these blazes, with a major spike in just the past decade.

Several residents were in need of rescue after being trapped in a burning small-scale apartment building in Los Angeles late Wednesday night. The fire in the two-story structure on the 2600 block of South Maple Avenue was reported around 11:45 p.

The initiative will include several Los Angeles area schools that will work together to plant more than 5,000 trees over the next three to five years.