Pasadena Fire Chief Chad Augustin tells the BBC that despite progress in fighting the Eaton fire - the second biggest LA blaze - strong winds in the forecast could still be a major danger.

"Unfortunately, we're going right back into red flag conditions with some potential disastrous wind conditions between now and Wednesday, with the peak winds expected to be on Tuesday," he says.

"So, while we're making some progress the end is not even close yet."

The Eaton Fire has burnt through 14,117 acres and it is 27% contained. He adds that a lot of that containment increase was due to "favourable" weather and wind conditions over the last 24 hours.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is offering to send fire crews from his war-torn country to help combat wildfires.

"This is currently being co-ordinated, and we have offered our assistance to the American side through the relevant channels," he says in a video posted on X.

He says that 150 firefighters "are already prepared", for a possible deployment.

There are currently 14,000 fire personnel from California and eight other US states, as well as units from Canada and Mexico fighting the blazes.

The Palisades Incident Command will be hosting a press conference at 14:00 local time (22:00 GMT), to provide an "operational update" on the Palisades Fire - the largest of the Los Angeles fires.

You can watch it by clicking the watch live button at the top of this page, and we'll also bring you the key updates.

Helena Humphrey
reporting from Los Angeles

Retired fire fighter, Rich Snyder, managed to save his house, and most of the neighbourhood he's lived in for 30 years, as wildfires threatened to burn them down.

He tells BBC News he was working in the evening and looked out the window and saw a huge fire. He quickly evacuated his home, and notified all of his neighbours on his Pasadena street.

"Leave, or if you wanna stay, I will help you," he told them, and describes how he instructed everyone to get their garden hoses out.

"Within a half an hour, embers were dropping into our property."

"It was like a miracle," he says, when a team from his work were driving through the area with a van full of fire retardant, which they then used all over the houses.

At one point, he stormed into a house that was alight, broke the ceiling and sprayed it with a hose, putting the fire out.

"I didn't wanna lose everything", Snyder says through tears, describing the moment his neighbour's garage caught fire, and there was no assistance.

"I'm still processing it," he says, and gets emotional, recounting how he had to help pull a neighbour out of his burning home.

Only two homes burned down in the end, and a further one suffered roof damage.

Los Angeles fire authorities are investigating whether the infrastructure of utility company Southern California Edison (SCE) "was involved in the ignition of the Hurst Fire", SCE says.

In a report filed on Friday, the company said preliminary information showed a downed conductor was found at a tower in the vicinity of the fire, but that it doesn't know whether the damage occurred "before or after the fire".

Officials still have not determined a cause for any of the Los Angeles blazes, and investigations are still in the very early stages.

President Joe Biden will gather key officials this afternoon to receive a virtual briefing on efforts to suppress the wildfires across Los Angeles, according to the White House.

He will also be briefed on how the federal resources he has directed are supporting the state and local response. Vice-President Kamala Harris will also join.

The upcoming lifestyle show, starring and created by the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has been delayed due to the wildfires in Los Angeles, Netflix says.

In a statement online, the streaming service writes: "At the request of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and with the full support of Netflix, the release of the show - a heartfelt tribute to the beauty of Southern California - has been moved from its previously announced January premiere date to March 4, due to the ongoing devastation caused by the Los Angeles wildfires."

Markle says the delay will help to "focus on the needs of those impacted by the wildfires in my home state of California".

The show titled With Love, Meghan was due to premiere on 15 January.

In the trailer released earlier this month, Meghan garnishes a cake with raspberries and harvests honey in California, where she lives with her husband Prince Harry and two children.

Emma Vardy
Reporting from Los Angeles

Fire crews made quick work of keeping a flare up in the rugged terrain above a Nasa jet propulsion lab in Pasadena under control.

Crews sawed down vegetation and doused the area with water and fire retardant, stopping the fire from spreading towards the facility, which is the heart of the US Space programme and full of top-secret technology.

The lab, Nasa's lead centre for robotic planetary exploration, has been temporarily closed due to the fire, but no damage has yet been reported.

Image source, EPA

Speaking to US news outlet NBC, California governor Gavin Newsom says he thinks this will be the worst natural disaster in the country "in terms of just the costs associated with it, in terms of the scale and scope."

But, he asks people to not turn their backs on the city, and come back and rebuild, as they will be supported.

On fire insurance, Newsom says the total value of the claims are being assessed, adding "we will determine what to do after we understand the magnitude of those claims".

Moving onto the firefighting efforts, he tells NBC that half a billion gallons of water was dropped on the Palisades Fire to stop it going down into Bel Air and Brentwood.

He adds that there are 14,000 people working against the fires, they have doubled the National Guard, and 73 fire fighters from Mexico have arrived to help.

Earlier in the week, President-elect Donald Trump accused Newsom of stopping water flowing into the state in order to protect Delta smelt - a variety of fish.

On Trump's comments, Newsom says he doesn't know "what he's referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt and reservoirs, reservoirs are completely full".

"That mis and disinformation I don't think advantages or aid any of us," Newsom says in response.

Max Matza
Reporting from Los Angeles

Susannah Orchard has been following developments on social media after evacuating from her home of two years in Topanga Canyon, a remote section of LA County that is threatened by the Palisades fire.

Orchard, who is originally from Wales, has many friends who have stayed behind or have continued to return to the mandatory evacuation zone over the past week.

“We’re all just on a rollercoaster because we think it’s died down, and then something flares up again,” she tells BBC News on the phone after fleeing the city for the safety of the desert in Yucca Valley, about 150 miles (240km) to the east.

“I would evacuate one place and then the phone would go off again and we’d have to just dash off again,” she says about her initial evacuations on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Things have died down in Topanga for now, according to people there, despite warnings from officials on Saturday that winds could worsen conditions. Strong winds like those on Monday and Tuesday never materialised, but there is still a very real chance that winds could pick up again.

James Kelly
Live page reporter

Tarek Abdalla was visiting his 96-year-old grandmother, Betsy Behny, in Los Angeles' Altadena neighbourhood when he noticed a "small orange glow" on the mountains adjacent to her house.

Within minutes, he says, it looked like a volcanic eruption.

“The wind was at that time maybe 70 or 80mph so the fire spread insanely quick. In a matter of seconds it really grew and my grandmother was kind of in disbelief," Tarek, 32, says.

He says he received a call from his cousin, who lives in Pasadena, who had also noticed the fire from her house, and at that point they decided Betsy needed to be evacuated.

Betsy's house, which she had lived in for more than 60 years, was "completely levelled" by the fire. "It is unrecognisable", Tarek says.

"There was no time to rescue any of her antique things and photos. She is devastated but she is still alive."

Footage shows the charred remains of Odyssey Charter School - South, in the devastated community of Altadena, as wildfires continue to rage across parts of Los Angeles.

"We are resilient and we will persevere," says the school's principal, Bonnie Brimecombe, who shared the footage online.

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Firefighters are battling fresh flare-ups in the Angeles National Forest in the rugged terrain above Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab.

This is a popular hiking area near Millard waterfall.

But it’s dry as a bone now.

“At least the wind is on our side now,” a firefighter says as aircraft dumped water on the flames.

Image source, BBC / Regan Morris

Three blazes continue to burn around Los Angeles, with the fire threat remaining "very high" due to strong winds, LA county officials have said.

The largest fire is the Palisades, which has now burnt through 23,000 acres and is 11% contained.

The Eaton fire is the second biggest and has burnt through 14,000 acres. It is 27% contained.

The Hurst fire has grown to 799 acres and has been almost fully contained.

Max Matza
Reporting from Los Angeles

Governor Gavin Newsom has invited incoming President Donald Trump to visit Los Angeles to tour the destruction from the ongoing wildfires.

But a visit to a disaster zone by the head of government is a huge logistical challenge that could get in the way of efforts to halt the fire, as well as efforts to provide support to the thousands of residents who have been impacted by them.

President Joe Biden was visiting LA on Monday, just one day before wildfires tore through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, and threatened other communities around the city.

He intended to fly to the Coachella valley to announce the creation of two new outdoor wilderness preserves, but had to call off the visit due to the intense winds. As the news broke of the fire’s destruction, he toured a fire station in Santa Monica and received a briefing on the latest situation.

Across town, in the devastated community of Altadena, one resident told me that he believed Biden’s visit may have hampered firefighting efforts.

Michael Reid believed that the president’s arrival closed down the airspace over the fires, blocking aerial water drops.

“It’s weird that they held up our air support,” he claims, adding that "they weren’t able to get tankers into places that they needed them because he was here.”

Image source, Getty Images

Active duty military personnel are standing by ready to be deployed to help contain the wildfires, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell tells ABC News.

She adds that FEMA has the funding needed to support the response effort.

Criswell has been speaking to several US outlets this morning about key issues. One of these issues is insurance, which is on the minds of many people who have lost their homes in the wildfires.

Officials are concerned about insurance carriers pulling out of the market: "These fire risks are increasing. Without insurance people won’t have the tools and resources to build their lives," Criswell tells CNN.

Rachel Flynn
Live page reporter

Earlier on Sunday, the LA Medical Examiner's Office released an update to say the the total death toll from the wildfires in the region was at least 16.

Following the LA County news conference, where we received various updates, there was no updated total death toll.

I reached out to the LA Medical Examiner's Office, who say that "no total number is available at this time" and that the total death toll is "still under investigation".

Image source, Reuters

If you're just joining us, here is a recap of what we learnt from the press conference with Mayor Karen Bass and other LA officials:

• The threat of fires in LA is still "very high" with strong winds forecast and "critical fire weather conditions to continue until Wednesday", LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone says
• Evacuation numbers have dropped, with around 105,000 residents still under evacuation orders and 87,000 under evacuation warnings
• Three people have been found dead, and there are 16 missing persons reports within the jurisdiction of LA County, officials say
• So far, there have been approximately 29 arrests, as those arrested are not believed to be from the local area and "have zero business being there", Sheriff Robert Luna says
• LA City Police Chief Jim McDonnell says limited access was initially allowed for some evacuated residents to collect medication and pets. However, the demand became so overwhelming that the practice had to be suspended today
• Kathryn Barger, chair of the LA County Board of Supervisors, says she sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump yesterday, inviting him to witness the wildfire situation as Mayor Bass is "confident" he will come to LA
• On the fires: the Hurst Fire is 89% contained at 799 acres; the Palisades Fire is at 23,707 acres with 11% containment; and the Eaton Fire is 27% contained, covering 14,117 acres