"Please be assured that our firefighters continue to work 24/7 to achieve full containment of these wildfires as fast as we can. We continue to plan for the repopulation of evacuated areas ...

Containment does not mean that a blaze has been completely extinguished. Rather, it refers to how much of a perimeter has been established around an active fire, preventing it from growing and ...

That marked improvement from 24 hours earlier, when the department was reporting 21% containment. The Eaton Fire remained 55% contained, while the Auto Fire was 85% contained Friday morning.

With thousands of fire personnel battling fires throughout the region, containment has varied, according to data from CalFire. Here are the five active fires throughout the region: The Palisades ...

The two largest fires are still at zero percent containment. Containment refers to progress in controlling the spread of fires with the use of barriers, also known as control lines. The percentage ...

Containment measures a fire’s potential for growth, not how much of it has been extinguished. By Adeel Hassan With the Los Angeles area in the cross hairs of at least five devastating wildfires ...