Multiple wildfires, including the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, are raging across southern California Thursday, leaving at least 5 dead and burning more than 27,000 acres, officials say. Police have arrested 20 suspected looters.

Two massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning uncontained on Thursday, but a brief respite from the fierce winds that have fanned the flames for two days allowed crews to slow their explosive spread.

The potential cost for insurers of the devastation caus Los Angeles wildfires is now expected to surpass $20 billion, according to analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co., doubling their estimate from just a day before.

With so many people displaced and looking for rentals, the region’s housing options could grow even scarcer and more expensive.

The massive Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, prompting mandatory evacuations affecting tens of thousands of people and highway closures. Later Tuesday, the Eaton Fire broke out in the foothills of Pasadena on the other side of Los Angeles County.

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Here are some of the organizations taking donations to help victims from Palisades, Eaton, Woodley, Lidia and Hurst wildfires.

Media outlets reported similarly on the destruction caused by the fires that raced through Southern California. But partisan publications attributed them to very different causes.

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Six major blazes around Los Angeles County have destroyed thousands of structures and forced the evacuation of at least 200,000 residents. Stunning images taken from space show the destruction from the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire.

In Photos and Video Homes in Pacific Palisades continued to burn on Thursday as crews tried to slow the spread of the Palisades fire. Credit...Loren Elliott for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times Follow continuing coverage of the wildfires in Southern California.