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At least 10 people died in fires raging across Los Angeles. Several of them lived near each other in the ravaged Altadena neighborhood.
- Published Jan. 9, 2025Updated Jan. 10, 2025, 10:25 a.m. ET
Three of the people who died in the fires raging around Los Angeles lived within a few blocks of each other, in a close-knit neighborhood in the eastern portion of the county.
The area abutted Angeles National Forest, and local residents said many people had lived there for generations, handing down homes they bought decades ago and that they had meticulously kept up.
One of the victims was found near a garden hose he had been using to spray his house as the fire bore down.
At least 10 people in total died across Los Angeles County, according to officials. Among them, three people died in the Eaton fire in the east, and two in the Palisades fire near the coast. On Thursday, the county sheriff, Robert G. Luna, said that officials were investigating neighborhoods where hundreds of homes burned, “hopefully not discover too many fatalities. That’s our prayer.”
“But this is a crisis, and we don’t know what to expect,” he added.
Here is what we know about the victims:
Victor Shaw
Victor Shaw’s tiled-roof house sat on Monterosa Drive, a cul-de-sac near the edge of the forest.
After the evacuation call went out late Tuesday night, one of Mr. Shaw’s neighbors, Willie Jackson, 81, packed his car, grabbing whatever belongings he could from the home where he had lived since the 1970s and left. So did other neighbors.
