As a disastrous fire continues to burn on the city’s west side, some are calling Chief Kristin Crowley to account: Why wasn’t the city better prepared?

Credit rating agency S&P placed a credit watch warning on Los Angeles’s general obligation and municipal improvement lease revenue bonds, signaling at least a one-in-two chance that the agency could “take a negative rating action during the next 90 days.

The most recent data available from the 10 largest US cities and other comparable departments shows the Los Angeles Fire Department is less staffed than almost any other major city, leaving it struggling to meet both daily emergencies and larger disasters such as wildfires.

Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,713 acres after being active for 10 days. A crew of 4,471 firefighters has been working on site and they managed to contain 31% of the fire by Friday morning. The blaze's cause remains under investigation.

About 1,600 policies for Pacific Palisades homeowners were dropped by State Farm in July, the state insurance office says.

Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.

Inmate firefighters responding to the ongoing Los Angeles fires and working 24-hour shifts are earning $26.90 per day, according to the California Dept. of Corrections.

Los Angeles city and county fire officials responded to questions about the pre-deployment of firefighters ahead of the catastrophic Eaton and Palisades fires.

Illness typically lasts for one to three days but people can still be contagious after their symptoms have subsided.

Many displaced by the L.A. fires are living in a perpetual state of limbo, stuck between a crisis that is vast and ongoing, and a recovery that has yet to truly begin.

We explain what’s known about how the catastrophic L.A. wildfires started and the factors that scientists do -- and don’t -- think contributed.