100,000 Flee Los Angeles Wildfires, and Trump’s Last-Minute Supreme Court Ask NYT | Top Stories By: Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger 9 January 2025 at 19:12 Plus, don’t eat your Christmas tree. © Philip Cheung for The New York TimesA destroyed home in California. As of early Thursday, the recent wildfires had killed at least five people and burned more than 27,000 acres.