In this video, county officials provide an update as firefighters are battling to control major fires in the Los Angeles area
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00:00It is safe to say that the Palisades fire is one of the most destructive
00:06natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles
00:10Damage assessments are ongoing at the Palisades fire. However
00:15preliminary reports estimate the damage or destroyed structures to be in the thousands
00:21evacuation orders are impacting
00:241,000 or a hundred and seventy nine thousand seven hundred and eighty three
00:28Residents that's nearly a hundred and eighty thousand people in Los Angeles County that are currently under evacuation orders
00:36with another close to
00:38200,000 residents that under evacuation
00:41Warnings I'm going out through my staff
00:44Hey
00:44Give me some stories where our deputies are just constantly putting their life on the line and in every
00:50Example I'm given is as a result of somebody who chose not to evacuate. I don't want to tell those stories anymore
00:58I don't want to give stories of our first responders being injured
01:02Specifically our communities being injured, please if you're told to evacuate
01:07evacuate