Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,713.4 acres after being active for five days. A crew of 4,720 firefighters has been working on site and they managed to contain 11% of the fire by Sunday afternoon. The blaze's cause remains under investigation.

By Jorge Garcia, Rollo Ross and Maria Alejandra Cardona LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Firefighters finally started gaining control over two major wildfires on the eastern and western flanks of Los Angeles on Friday as fierce winds that supercharged the fires for days finally eased.

Many watched their homes burn on television in a state of shock. Since the flames erupted in and around Los Angeles, scores of residents have returned to their still smoldering neighborhoods even as the threat of new fires persisted and the nation’s second-largest city remained unsettled.