At least 10 people are dead and many more injured as several fires broke out across Southern California amid historically dry and windy conditions.

Nonprofit groups are working to distribute essential supplies to those impacted by the fires across the Los Angeles area.

Despite the catastrophic damage, all-encompassing stress and unhealthy air quality, many neighbors have stepped up to assist one another.

Multiple major wildfires are leaving a trail of destruction and death in the Los Angeles area. A handful of wildfires that kicked up Tuesday, powered by high winds and dry conditions, have exploded in size.

In 2019, the number of homeowners’ policies in California that were not renewed jumped by more than thirty per cent. In 2023, two giant insurers, State Farm and Allstate, announced that they would stop writing new policies for various forms of property insurance in California.

The Los Angeles wildfires could threaten California’s already unstable insurance market, which carriers have been fleeing as disasters multiply.

Insurance companies and rates haven’t kept up with increasingly catastrophic events like the California wildfires or hurricanes that recently hit Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina. It can put