Devastating LA wildfires are so big they can be seen from space
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Wildfires ripping through parts of Los Angeles – forcing at least 150,000 people to flee their homes – are so extensive that they can now be seen from Space.
![[epa11814722 A handout satellite image made available by NASA's Worldview application, part of the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS), shows smoke from the forest fires and clouds over Los Angeles, California, USA, 08 January 2025 (issued 09 January 2025). According to data from California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) multiple wildfires are burning across thousands of acres and forcing thousands of evacuations and destroying hundreds of homes in the Los Angeles area. EPA/NASA WORLDVIEW HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235451195-0b45.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Satellite images show the apocalyptic scenes, which have been described as ‘hell on earth’ by those forced to watch their homes burn. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the LA wildfires. For more than 48 hours, the inferno – believed to be the worst in the history of LA – has been ravaging communities in the Palisades and Eaton areas.
![[Los Angeles fire satellite high res]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235448862-bd84.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘This firestorm is the big one,’ LA mayor Karen Bass said after rushing back to the city, cutting short an official trip to Ghana. Firefighters are so far unable to contain the flames, leaving them to spread across thousands of acres. At least six separate wildfires were burning in Los Angeles county, with at least three of them were listed as ‘0% controlled’.
![[epa11814721 A handout satellite image made available by NASA's Earth Observatory shows smoke from the forest fires and clouds over Los Angeles, California, USA, 08 January 2025 (issued 09 January 2025). According to data from California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) multiple wildfires are burning across thousands of acres and forcing thousands of evacuations and destroying hundreds of homes in the Los Angeles area. EPA/NASA WORLDVIEW HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235451120-86ef.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
They include two huge conflagrations on the eastern and western flanks of the city and the smaller Sunset fire raging in Hollywood Hills just above the Hollywood Boulevard and its Walk of Fame. At least 17,234 acres have burned in the Palisades fire and another 10,600 acres in the Eaton fire. Both infernos are 0% contained.
![[Scene of devastation in the aftermath of fires at Malibu, CA, as seen from boat in Santa Monica Bay]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SWNS_FIRES_CALIFORNIA_003_039108.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
