The Latest Breaking News from Pacific Palisades

The Welsh actor has reportedly lost his home in the Pacific Palisades fire, the largest raging within the LA area.

Among the thousands of buildings destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires were a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic parish and a half-dozen Protestant churches

From the air, the extent of the devastation wrought by the Palisades Fire on these two neighborhoods is starting to come into focus: whole streets in ruins, the remains of once-fabulous houses now nothing but ash and memories.

The devastating wildfires that ravaged the Los Angeles area, this week, have decimated several iconic landmarks and beloved local institutions in their wake.

In a huge stroke of luck for the actor, Tom Hanks’ Pacific Palisades home is among a small clutch of celebrity mansions still standing amid LA’s devastating wildfires.

Kerr said his mother was able to escape the blaze but his childhood home was lost in the fire.

As fires raged from the seaside enclave of Pacific Palisades to the hillsides above Pasadena — with at least five dead and thousands of homes and other buildings leveled or damaged — residents accustomed to radiant sunshine and balmy weather reckoned with an unsettling reality

What began as a wildfire in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday has expanded to five fires still burning fiercely on Thursday

Street after street, there is little but dark ash and ruin where a wealthy seaside enclave favored by celebrities once stood