The iconic landscape of Los Angeles County and its surrounding region have been forever transformed by a massive, multi-front firestorm that has leveled an area more than twice the size of

Officials advised the public to stay away from the ocean amid warnings of the strongest windstorm to hit SoCal in more than a decade.

The wildfires in Southern California have led to the evacuations of over 130,000 people and have destroyed over 10,000 structures. Overlaying the wildfire outbreak across other major U.S. cities shows that the blaze is one of the worst in United States history, as it continues to spread across residential areas in Los Angeles.

Residents of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Los Angeles, California, are now taking stock of widespread devastation as a wind-driven wildfire continues to burn through the community.

The scale of the destruction is hard to comprehend: The fires have consumed more the 60 square miles, according to state fire officials, and killed at least 24 people even as the search for additional victims remains ongoing.

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

Over one week, at least 10 fires in the Los Angeles region have burned a total area nearly three times the size of Manhattan.

The damage the Southern California wildfires have inflicted in the Los Angeles area so far is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.

An arctic air mass settled over New York City and much of the country Sunday evening, bringing a deep freeze and the chance of more snow than the city has seen in three years.

Southern California Edison, a unit of utility Edison International , was hit by multiple lawsuits on Monday claiming its electrical equipment started one of the major wildfires currently raging in the Los Angeles area,

Vice President Kamala Harris could well be planning a post-inauguration relocation to Manhattan. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, was seen touring a luxury $20,000-a-month apartment on New York 's Upper West Side, sparking speculation that the couple will trade the White House for the Big Apple.

Comedian Bill Burr called for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, to be freed from jail.