At least 5 people have died in Los Angeles fires

At least five people have died in forest fires in Los Angeles. Firefighters are still battling the flames, while several major events have had to be canceled.

The death toll from the fires raging around Los Angeles has climbed to at least five deadand could get even worse, the county sheriff announced Wednesday.

“Earlier today we reported two deaths, and unfortunately the number of casualties increased to five as we moved further into this area,” Robert Luna told KNX News radio. “Don’t forget that the situation is still very unstable and thatfire is not at all under control. I really hope we don’t find any more, but I don’t think we will. »

Several events canceled

The meeting NHL between the Kings and the Calgary Flames, scheduled for the city’s business center (“Downtown”), has been postponed with no new date announced. The Los Angeles Rams American football team must face the Minnesota Vikings at SoFi Stadium on Monday in the first round of the play-offs. A meeting which could be relocated to Arizona, indicated the American football league (NFL).

The announcement of nominations for Oscarsscheduled for January 17, was also postponed due to the fires, reports CNN. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organizes the Oscars, decided to expand the voting window to give more time to vote for its members, many of whom live in Los Angeles and were affected or displaced by the fires of forest. Nominations will not be revealed until January 19. As for the 97th Academy Awards, it is scheduled for Sunday March 2 in Los Angeles.

In the city of the film and entertainment industry, fires have led to the cancellation of events and closures of sites, such as that of the amusement park Universal Studios Hollywood. The Critics Choice Awards ceremony, one of the events of the annual awards season in Hollywood, which was to take place on Sunday, was postponed by the organizers. The nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), the awards of the American actors’ union, had to be announced by press release and not in public, as initially planned.