Steve Kerr's childhood home within the Pacific Palisades burned down within the devastating Los Angeles County fires, this news organization confirmed Wednesday.

The Warriors head coach spent much of his childhood each at home and abroad along with his parents within the Middle East.

Kerr's mother, Ann, still lives in the home. She turned 90 in August.

The San Francisco Chronicle was the one report first the news.

More than 1,000 buildings were destroyed within the Palisades fire, essentially the most destructive in LA's modern history. As of Wednesday afternoon, the three fires had killed five people and burned a complete of as much as 1,500 buildings, with greater than 100,000 people being forcibly evacuated. In Palisades Village, the general public library, two large grocery stores, two banks and a number of other boutiques were destroyed.

The wildfires began on Tuesday morning. California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency.

“I want to express my thoughts and condolences to everyone in Los Angeles who is dealing with the fires,” Kerr said Tuesday after the Warriors' loss to the Heat. “My mother had to be evacuated. Everett Dayton is on our team (in player development), he grew up in Pacific Palisades and as far as I know his family home is lost.”

According to CNN, the fires may very well be the most costly in U.S. history.

The Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena and parts of Brentwood are among the many areas under either an evacuation order or warning.

Draymond Green has a house in Brentwood, much of which is being evacuated. Green's family is protected, his mother, Mary Babers, told this news organization. Green reportedly purchased the property in 2020 for $9.6 million.

Kerr and Green are only two of dozens of public figures whose homes have been evacuated as a result of the three fires within the Los Angeles area.

The fires have destroyed a complete of about 42 square miles (108 square kilometers) – almost the scale of the complete city of San Francisco.

Originally published: January 8, 2025 at 6:26 pm PST

AUSTIN, Texas — Summer heat hit Texas and the Southwest on Wednesday, with Phoenix seeing triple-digit temperatures for nearly 90 consecutive days and extreme heat advisories issued for hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Meanwhile, energy demand in Texas reached an unofficial high on Tuesday, in response to the state grid operator.

A serious heat warning is in effect for Texas, referring to what the weather service describes as “rare and/or prolonged extreme heat with little to no overnight relief.” An extreme heat warning has been issued for eastern New Mexico.

This area of ​​high pressure, sometimes called a heat dome, is a slow-moving high-pressure system within the upper atmosphere with stable air and a deep layer of high temperatures, said meteorologist Bryan Jackson.

“It's usually sunny, the sun is blazing, it's hot and the air is thick there,” Jackson said. “There are about a dozen locations that set records on a daily basis … mostly over Texas.”

Record temperatures were expected in cities corresponding to Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Amarillo. In Phoenix, monsoon rains have provided temporary relief since Sunday, although day by day highs remain above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

The dome is anticipated to maneuver into western Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico starting Saturday after which into the center Mississippi Valley, where it’s forecast to weaken somewhat, Jackson said.

An extreme heat warning has been issued for around 14.7 million people, with heat indices expected to be 43.3 degrees Celsius and above. A heat warning has been issued for an additional 10 million people.

In Fort Worth, Texas, a whole bunch sought emergency care in August due to the heat, in response to MedStar Ambulance. The service responded to 286 heat-related emergency calls in the primary 20 days of August, about 14 per day, in comparison with about 11 per day in August 2023, in response to spokeswoman Desiree Partain.

Christa Stedman, captain of Austin-Travis County EMS, said the world across the Texas State Capitol has seen about yet one more call per day for heat-related illnesses since April 1 than a yr ago, regardless that July was barely milder this yr.

“In the vast majority of cases, we see heat exhaustion. That's good because we recognize it before heat stroke occurs. But it's also bad because people don't pay attention to the warning signs,” says Stedman, corresponding to heat cramps within the arms, legs or stomach, which warn that the body is getting too hot.

Despite record heat in Texas, residents weren’t asked to scale back their energy use as in previous years, in contrast to the 11 energy conservation prompts issued last yr. One reason is that the agency that manages Texas' independent energy grid and deregulated providers has been improving the grid's capability to higher manage supply and demand, said Doug Lewin, energy consultant and president of Stoic Energy.

However, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' criteria for determining when residents are asked to conserve energy have also been modified because they’re ineffective and unpopular, Lewin said.

“I don't think they're seeing that much of a reduction in warnings,” Lewin said of ERCOT. In fact, public outcry against the conservation warnings has led the agency to send out fewer of them, he continued.

“When deciding whether conservation measures need to be taken, many factors are taken into account on a case-by-case basis and depending on local conditions,” said Trudi Webster, communications manager, on the topic.

“It's been a hot summer, but this one stands out for its extremes,” said meteorologist Jackson.

As the European climate agency Copernicus announced on Thursday, a series of 13 consecutive months with a brand new global heat record got here to an end last July with the decline of the natural climate phenomenon El Niño.

Lathan is a member of the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-reported issues.

The Point Fire in Sonoma County, which broke out Sunday, has burned greater than 400 acres, destroyed some buildings and triggered evacuation orders near its source at Lake Sonoma, authorities said.

The fire also appears to be spreading to several wineries in the world.

Cal Fire reported that the hearth was first reported at 12:33 p.m. in an area about 12 miles northwest of Healdsburg, west of Geyserville. It is one among the greater than a dozen forest fires burning across the state.

As of 10 p.m. Sunday night, the state fire department said the hearth had spread to 468 acres and was 15 percent contained. There were no immediate reports of significant injuries, but Cal Fire wrote in a social media post, “We have confirmed reports of structures destroyed and are working on damage inspections regarding the type and number of structures.”

The post also said that the hearth had now spread south toward Mountain View Ranch Road and that several wineries on and south of that road had turn out to be in the trail of the hearth.

Evacuation orders have been issued for residents of Fall Creek Road, Stewarts Point-Skaggs Spring Road and West Dry Creek Road. Evacuation warnings have been issued for areas south of Lake Sonoma – warnings that tell residents to prepare to go away the areas.

Cal Fire said late Sunday that “crews are confident the threat to structures along the Upper Dry Creek Valley will diminish around sunset.”

As a results of the hearth, air quality from Healdsburg to Napa was rated unhealthy, in accordance with online readings from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. The National Weather Service predicted that smoke The spread of the hearth would follow the identical trajectory from northwest to southeast.

According to Cal Fire, seven crews are battling the hearth, supported by greater than 20 pieces of kit, including three helicopters. The fire has reportedly consumed brush and fir trees and was fueled partly by northwest winds and low relative humidity.

Curiously, the Point Fire's origin was not subject to the National Weather Service's weekend warnings, although warnings were in effect in other parts of Sonoma County, in addition to in Napa, Solano and Sacramento counties.

The largest wildfire currently burning within the state is the Post Fire near Gorman in Los Angeles County, which was first reported Saturday afternoon and had burned 14,625 acres by Sunday evening. Authorities said the forest was 2 percent contained.

This is a developing story. Check back later for updates.