Multiple wildfires, including the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, are raging across Southern California Friday, leaving at least 10 dead and burning more than 10,000 homes across 27,000 acres, officials say.

Los Angeles is reeling from the most destructive wildfires in its history, and firefighters are struggling to contain the devastating blaze.

State prisoners have long been a part of California's firefighting force. Hundreds of them now are deployed in Los Angeles County.

LOS ANGELES − As multiple wildfires continue to burn through Southern California, evacuation orders remain in place throughout the region through at least Thursday. Authorities continue to investigating the causes of three wildfires that began burning in Southern California on Tuesday and two fires that sparked north of Los Angeles and in Hollywood on Wednesday.

As greater Los Angeles burns, President-elect Donald Trump has unleashed a blistering volley against Gov. Gavin Newsom and stepped up threats to withhold federal aid to California, which some experts say could be enduring its most costly disaster ever.

President Biden on Thursday announced the federal government will support California’s efforts to fight the raging wildfires for 180 days. “We’re doing literally everything we can at a federal level,” Biden said in a briefing with administration officials about the situation,