LA Times providing free access to updates on the fires

• Cal Fire reported the Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth and Hurst fires had consumed more than 62 square miles, an area larger than San Francisco.
• The Palisades and Eaton infernos have destroyed more than 30 structures that preservationists consider historically significant.
• The tally could grow as an accounting continues.
• The fires that have devastated portions of the Los Angeles region in recent days stand among the worst natural disasters in American history.
• a video of the damage from overhead gives you just a brief look at the extent and totality of the damage

Will Rogers’ ranch home. Pasadena Waldorf School. Robert Bridges House. The Bunny Museum. Andrew McNally House. Theatre Palisades. The Zane Grey Estate. The Palisades and Eaton infernos have laid waste to more than 30 structures considered historic in what preservationists believe is the single worst loss of such properties in the region’s history. “It’s staggering and heartbreaking — I don’t know any other way to put it,” said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner at Los Angeles City Planning’s Office of Historic Resources. “This is widespread destruction of significant architecture and places that are cherished in our communities.” …The Los Angeles Conservancy said Friday afternoon that 32 properties it considered historic because of their architectural or cultural significance were claimed by the fires, which have destroyed or damaged more than 9,000 structures… “