We're going to wrap up our live coverage of the wildfires in Los Angeles here, but the team will be back tomorrow to keep you updated as California stretches towards the end of one week of devastation.

In summary, there are four active fires threatening the city, with stats from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection:

• The Palisades fire — the most destructive in the city's history — is still only 11 % contained. It has burnt through 9,572 hectares.

• The Eaton fire is 15% contained. It has burnt though 5,712 hectares.
• The Kenneth fire is 90% contained. It has burnt through 425 hectares.
• The Hurst fire is 76% contained (up from 37% yesterday). It has burnt though 323 hectares. 

LA's fire department has released footage from its aerial fleet dropping water and fire retardant on the fires around Los Angeles.

For more, my colleague Luke Cooper has this excellent look at the water-bombing operation's fleet and tactics:

Unsurprisingly, smoke from the fires surrounding Los Angeles is contributing to poor air quality, particularly in the Santa Monica area close to the Palisades fire.

The Californian south coast air quality bureau (known as South Coast AQMD) has put out a forecast for air quality tomorrow (local time), with red areas shown as unhealthy and east of LA including Palm Springs looking poor for people with conditions such as asthma.

YouTuber and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, known as HasanAbi, alongside actor and fellow streamer Caroline Kwan, have been able to speak to some of the hundreds of people fighting LA's fires as part of their prison sentence. 

The US famously uses prisoners to respond to natural disasters and build roads, and the LA fires have drawn huge attention to the nearly 1,000-strong incarcerated people deployed across the city.

Piker ran a livestream earlier today as he spoke to some of the men working as firefighters about being incarcerated, conditions while they're firefighting, and their favourite videogames.

The Californian corrections authority says incarcerated prisoners are paid between $US5.80 and $US10.24 a day, and then an extra $US1 for every hour they are fighting a fire or responding to another type of incident.

For those working 24-hour shifts during emergencies, prisoners are paid US$26.90 a day for a lower skill level.

The Los Angeles Fire Department says critical fire conditions for the Palisades fire "are possible" over the next 12 hours as weaker northerly winds are expected. 

"Fire continues to burn actively with greatest rates of spread experienced on exposed ridgetops and drainages," the department wrote on Instagram.

There are firefighters coming in from quite a few places to help battle the blazes. 

For those of you who have arrived on the blog more recently, earlier my colleague Maddy Morwood reported that Mexican firefighters had landed at LAX to join the efforts. 

Alongside its very popular Super Scooper aircrafts, Canada has already sent crews to lend a hand. 

Then we have all the interstate crews as well. 

Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington are all bolstering the boots on the ground. 

We're hearing reports from residents who were evacuated or had their homes destroyed in the LA fires that landlords have been significantly raising the prices for people to get into new and temporary accommodation.

The higher-than-average incomes of Pacific Palisades residents who were forced to leave homes there appears to have tempted chancers, who see the opportunity to make money from others' misery.

"We put in an application at a house … that was listed at $17,000 a month, and they told us if we didn't pay $30,000, we weren't going to get it," Maya Lieberman told the AFP.

"They told me they have people ready to offer more and pay cash. It's absolutely insane."

Price gouging is illegal in California, and once a state of emergency is declared vendors cannot increase their prices by more than 10 per cent.

Reporting with AFP

Some stunning accounts of community solidarity and survival are beginning to emerge from the fire zones across Los Angeles.

Nick Pemberton, an Altadena resident, told Reuters that he scrambled to pump water into his truck from a swimming pool so he could fight fires that were encroaching on his home.

"When the fire trucks showed up on Mar Vista, one street over, they ran out of water because all the fire hydrants were down," Mr Pemberton said.

"Thank God we were able to get the pumps in the hoses and start pumping out swimming pools.

"It was amazing. Every neighbour with a swimming pool was running out and saying, 'Use our water.'"

Reporting with Reuters

California's aerial firefighting teams have been dumping tens of thousands of litres of flame retardant over LA suburbs in the hope of breaking up some of the city's wildfires.

CAL Fire says the retardant is made up of 88 per cent water and 12 per cent ammonium phosphate, which is commonly used in fertilisers.

The substance also includes gum thickeners to help the retardant stick to burning plants and trees, and red or pink colouring dye so pilots can see where drops land from above.

Authorities say the retardant coats the ground and acts as a fuel break, with the chemicals in the substance reducing the chance of vegetation combusting when flames approach.

On top of all of that, what it has created are some eerie, picturesque scenes in ordinary backyards and streets across LA.

Reporting with Reuters and AFP.

California Governor Gavin Newsom did invite president-elect Donald Trump to tour the area on Friday.

Newsom told Fox LA on Saturday that Trump had not returned his calls. 

According to CNN, the incoming president spent Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, meeting with conservative Republicans. 

Trump has been vocal about the fires on his Truth Social account, where he has been critical of the Californian government's response. 

"One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground," he wrote in one post. 

"It's ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign."