Multiple wildfires, including the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, are raging across southern California Thursday, leaving at least 5 dead and burning more than 27,000 acres, officials say. Police have arrested 20 suspected looters.

Two massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning uncontained on Thursday, but a brief respite from the fierce winds that have fanned the flames for two days allowed crews to slow their explosive spread.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters battled to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area early Thursday that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes.

A growing list of restaurants and landmarks are among the thousands of buildings destroyed by the Palisades Fires, which continues to burn along the Los Angeles County coastline as of Thursday morning.

Palisades Charter High School is one of the many buildings that has been engulfed in flames due to the wildfires raging in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Steve Guttenberg Says Pacific Palisades Blaze Is "the Most Unbelievable Fire I've Ever Seen" Earlier in the day, PCHS posted a note on its website that the school was closed due to the Palisades Fire.