It’s a long way from LA to Chicago, but the world is small if you have friends or relatives in Southern California, or if you simply have empathy for people under duress.

Los Angeles is in the midst of battling multiple wildfires. FOX Business takes a look at some of America's most costly wildfires.

The wind-driven fires in Los Angeles, California serve as a stark reminder of the importance of having a fire escape plan in place at your home. According to a survey by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a staggering 67% of households do not have a fire escape plan, and only 8% of those who do have one have practiced it.

A Super Scooper plane drops water on the Palisades fire on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Brian van der Brug/Los ... spokesperson for the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) told Nexstar. “However, those that do typically ...

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As deadly wildfires devastated a wide area of Los Angeles in early 2025, social media posts claimed that directed energy weapons ignited the blazes -- a conspiracy theory shared around similar disasters.

Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignition

For those who plan to rebuild, a natural question has emerged: What can be done differently to prevent the sort of destruction that has killed at least 24 people, leveled thousands of structures and inflicted untold billions in damage?

Such are the scenes across Los Angeles County, where fires ignited last week and continued to spread over the weekend in what has become one of the largest and most destructive urban conflagrations in U.