Firefighters made progress battling back the deadly Los Angeles County blazes on Saturday, Jan. 18, as President-elect Donald Trump said he likely will visit the fire-torn areas next week. “I will be, probably, at the end of the week,” Trump told NBC News in an interview on Saturday.

Unprecedented wildfires in Los Angeles County in California are decimating thousands of structures and displacing thousands of residents.

The L.A.-area fires may pose the first big test of California’s wildfire fund, which was set up in 2019 to protect utilities from bankruptcy.

Lithium batteries from EVs and hybrids, as well as home-power backups, will require specialized removal in the wake of the Eaton and Palisades fires.

Improving weather conditions continue to aid in the increased containment of both the Eaton and Palisades fires, with some evacuations lifted in the Palisades Fire area.

Parts of Los Angeles are still burning from multiple wildfires. Some evacuated residents returned to their homes to find nothing but rubble.

In this first-person account to PEOPLE, Katherine Turman recalls spending time in the Pacific Palisades as a youth, the tense moments surrounding her evacuation and the scenes in her neighborhood upon

For five consecutive days, wildfires fanned by strong winds have ravaged neighborhoods in Los Angeles, destroying more than 12,300 homes and buildings and leaving at least 16 dead. Fresh evacuations were ordered from Mandeville Canyon to the Interstate 405 freeway on Friday evening because of a flare-up of the massive Palisades Fire.

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional había advertido que las zonas del norte de Los Ángeles y el este del condado de Ventura podrían experimentar vientos fuertes, pero esa previsión fue revisada a la baja. No obstante, los vientos podrían intensificarse el miércoles 15 de enero.

More powerful winds were expected to trigger new wildfires that could set back the recent progress made in containing blazes in the Los Angeles area that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed a

In the wake of the L.A. wildfires, the entertainment industry has stepped up to assist those who need help the most. Major studios — including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and more — have committed to large donations,