In pictures | Los Angeles area landmarks before and after wildfires

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California wildfires sweeping through the Los Angeles area have killed at least 10 people, consumed more than 10,000 structures and sparked evacuation orders affecting 180,000 people.

Here’s a look at some of the landmarks before and after the wildfires, the two largest of which include the Palisades Fire in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, and the Eaton Fire in the Altadena section of Pasadena, California.

The Eaton Fire, which started on Tuesday evening, has grown to about 5,476 hectares, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). More than 5,000 buildings were destroyed, such as homes, residential buildings, businesses, outbuildings and vehicles.

Among the many buildings was the Altadena Community Church, founded in 1940, destroyed by wildfires in downtown Altadena on Wednesday.

“To all religious communities, including the Pasadena Jewish Center and St. Mark’s Diocese across the street who also lost their buildings, we send our love, condolences and prayers always,” the church posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday.

Altadena Community Church is shown in an undated photo.

(altadenauc.org)

Fire explodes through the window of the Altadena Community Church.

(Chris Piccello/The Associated Press)

In downtown Altadena, Mendocino Street is shown in a screenshot from Google Maps in July 2022.

Mendocino Street in Altadena, California, shown in a screenshot from Google Maps

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The same street was photographed on Wednesday as people made their way through the intersection amid wildfire smoke and poor air quality.

People walk through wildfire smoke amid poor air quality caused by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.

(Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Open for 26 years, the Rabbit Museum, which he said was the only museum in the world about all things rabbit, burned down on Wednesday. “They only saved a few rabbit items. They saved cats and rabbits,” the museum wrote in a post on its Facebook page, adding that it was the last of the surrounding buildings to burn.

Rabbit Museum in Altadena, California.

(Rabbit Museum/Facebook)

A firefighter walks past a charred rabbit statue and debris at the destroyed Rabbit Museum.

(Chris Piccello/The Associated Press)

A driver drives a car near the Destroyed Rabbit Museum in Altadena, California.

(Stephen Lamm/San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press)

In these aerial views, satellite images show before and after homes burned by the Eaton Fire near Marathon Road in Altadena, on Wednesday.

Animated image showing infrared satellite images showing a residential area before and after the wildfires in the Altadena area of ​​Los Angeles, California.

(Maxar Technologies/The Associated Press)

The Palisades Fire, which started Tuesday morning, has grown to about 7,991 hectares, according to Cal Fire. It destroyed more than 5,300 buildings.

Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church was among those destroyed buildings.

The Presbyterian Church of Pacific Palisades was photographed before and after the landmark was destroyed by wildfires.

(Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church/Facebook, Augustin Bollier/AFP)

These satellite shots show homes and businesses before and after the Palisades Fire, along the Pacific Coast Highway and Tuna Canyon in Los Angeles on October 20, 2024, and on Wednesday, respectively.

Satellite images show homes and businesses before and after the Palisades Fire, along the Pacific Coast Highway and Tuna Canyon, on October 20, 2024, in Los Angeles and on January 8, 2025, respectively.

(Maxar Technologies/The Associated Press)

This animation shows homes in a residential area in the Pacific Palisades area before and after the fire, on October 20, 2024, and Thursday, respectively.

In an aerial view, an animated GIF shows homes in a residential area of ​​Pacific Palisades before and after the Palisades Fire

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