The Los Angeles wildfires, which have reduced entire neighborhoods to smoldering ruins and left an apocalyptic landscape, could become the costliest wildfires in U.S. history in terms of insured losses if analysts' estimates of up to $20 billion materialize.

Evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings in La Cañada Flintridge: There's a 6 p.m. - 6 a.m. curfew in place for all areas under mandatory evacuation orders and evacuation warnings because of the Eaton Fire, within the Altadena area. There is no curfew in evacuation zones located in the city of Pasadena.

A quick-strike crew of Native American firefighters and journeymen utility workers from the Navajo Nation are helping Los Angeles residents cut through landslides, mangled trees and charred debris of

Firefighters are making progress, officials said, but residents must be ready for a return of powerful winds that could spread flames.

The wildfires have destroyed more than 12,000 structures, and a Southern California housing shortage that was already serious has been made even more dire.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s