Evacuation orders went into effect in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood, with multiple homes under immediate threat on Tuesday.

The Pacific Palisades wildfire and three others burning in and around Los Angeles, driven by powerful winds, have expanded, forcing residents to evacuate, destroying homes and other buildings and clogging roads in the region.

Celebrities were forced to evacuate on Tuesday as a quickly spreading fire raged in Pacific Palisades, California. The Pacific Palisades inferno began as a brush fire at around 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday,

The Los Angeles wildfires are set to be the costliest blaze in U.S. history, analysts said Thursday, as the first initial estimates of damage from the infernos soared with their unchecked spread. Total economic losses from the fires are now pegged at close to $50 billion,