We're going to wrap up our live coverage of the wildfires in Los Angeles here for the night.

To recap, there have been 24 deaths and three active fires continue to threaten the city, according to stats from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection:

• The Palisades fire — the most destructive in the city's history — is still only 14 per cent contained. It has burnt through more than 9,596 hectares
• The Eaton fire is 33 per cent contained. It has burnt though more than 5,712 hectares
• The Hurst fire is 97 per cent contained. It has burnt though more than 323 hectares

One of the few Hollywood productions to resume filming — Jimmy Kimmel Live — has turned its backlot into a donation centre. 

In an Instagram post, the show said it was accepting supplies such as bottled water, baby food, pet food and more. 

Kimmel broke into tears while addressing the disaster during his Monday show monologue. 

"I think I speak for all of us when I say it’s been a sickening, shocking, awful experience," he said.

"It's also been, in a lot of ways, a beautiful experience because, once again, we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other.

"People who lost their own homes are out volunteering in parking lots for others who lost theirs."

Sevilla Vet Hospital in Los Angeles is one of the clinics that has been helping and treating animals during the fires. 

Owner Antonio Pedraza said the clinic is seeing many injuries among animals, including smoke inhalation, conjunctivitis and broken bones. 

"You need to choose which side are you, just watching TV and see what's going on, or you can be helping," he told Elias Weiss Friedman, the author behind the New York Times bestseller The Dogist. 

"This is a business, but we are first people." 

The "forward progress" of a new brush fire, dubbed the Auto fire, has been stopped, according to local officials.

CalFire reports the blaze broke out in Ventura County, north-west of Los Angeles, covering more than 22 hectares.

The Ventura County Fire Department announced on social media that, while the fire has been stopped, it remains at 0 per cent containment.

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The UCLA campus is currently running on an emergency status but not under an evacuation warning at this time.

On January 10, an evacuation warning was issued for the zone adjacent to UCLA, due to the Palisades fire.

Undergraduate and graduate classes have moved to remote instruction up to January 17.

Houses, cars, businesses and hillsides have been blanketed with hot pink fire retardant, dropped over the city by water-bombing aircraft.

Thousands of litres of the substance have been dropped in the last week.

The powder, called Phos-Chek, stops the spread of fire by depleting it of oxygen and changing the composition of plant matter to make it less flammable.

You can read more on it in my colleague Brianna Morris-Grant's piece here.

Governor Gavin Newsom says the Hurst fire is now 97 per cent contained.

Spanning more than 323 hectares, the governor says officials are continuing to improve the blaze's containment lines. 

Rob Rogers, the commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS), says companies, including Elon Musk's X and Meta — which owns Facebook and Instagram — could save lives by giving first responders back-end access to data.

The RFS runs a network of some 74,000 volunteer firefighters and full-time staff protecting one of the world's most fire-prone regions.

It has a software program that uses artificial intelligence to predict where fires might spread.

The program could be made more powerful by better integrating it with posts from social media users on wildfires as they started and spread, Rogers told Reuters.

X and Meta, however, have both been unwilling to provide back-end data to emergency services at no cost, he said.

"We've got a lot better tools than we had even in 2019 [and] 2020 … but certainly that integration of social media, it remains a challenge for us.

"They're unwilling to give us the data."

Meta and X did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Reporting with Reuters.

Firefighters have been attending burning building sites to assess the damage of the Eaton fire.

The workers at Pacific Gas and Electric are spraying fire retardant on the electricity poles and the vegetation to help reduce the impact of the fires.

"It's always difficult to see any type of hardship, but by coming in here maybe we could minimise a bit of that," one worker said in an Instagram video.