News of the growing toll, announced late Thursday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, came as swaths of the United States' second-largest city lay in ruins.
With reports of looting, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said a nighttime curfew was planned, and the state's National Guard was on hand to patrol affected areas.
“We’re throwing everything at our disposal -- including our National Guard service members -- to protect communities in the days to come,“ he said.
Luna said his officers were patrolling evacuation zones and would arrest anyone who was not supposed to be there.
Nicholas Norman mounted an armed vigil at his home after seeing suspicious characters in the middle of the night.
'Death and destruction'
Firefighters said they were starting to get a handle on the Pacific Palisades blaze, with six percent of its perimeter contained -- meaning it can't spread any further in that direction.
One flared near Calabasas and the wealthy Hidden Hills enclave, home to celebrities like Kim Kardashian, late Thursday.
US President Joe Biden told a White House briefing he had pledged extra federal funds and resources to help the state cope with “the most... devastating fire in California’s history.”
But one Super Scooper -- an amphibious aircraft that dumps hundreds of gallons of water at a time -- was grounded after colliding with a drone.
Some of those forced out of their homes began to return Thursday to find scenes of devastation.
“The view now is of death and destruction,“ she told AFP. “I don’t know if anyone can come back for a while.”
Meanwhile an AFP overflight of the Pacific Palisades and Malibu -- some of the most expensive real estate in the world and home to celebrities like Paris Hilton, Anthony Hopkins and Billy Crystal -- revealed desolation.
Multi-million dollar mansions have vanished entirely, seemingly swept into the Pacific Ocean by the force of the fire.
For millions of others in the area, life was disrupted: schools were closed, hundreds of thousands were without power and major events were cancelled or, in the case of an NFL playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings, moved somewhere else.
A National Weather Service bulletin said “significant fire growth” remained likely “with ongoing or new fires” into Friday.
Two wet years in Southern California have given way to a very dry one, leaving ample fuel dry and primed to burn.
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