In the catastrophic Palisades fire, one of the city’s iconic thoroughfares was severely damaged and large swaths of homes were reduced to smoldering rubble.

A mother and her son, a UCLA freshman, fought to save their house in Pacific Palisades, using a hose to keep the flames at bay while hundreds of their neighbors' homes burned.

Plumes of smoke are seen as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as seen from Santa Monica. The Palisades Fire burns beyond a Sunset Boulevard street sign. Smoke rises from a burning vehicle.

UPDATES: All of the Pacific Palisades is now under mandatory evacuation. The fire is now reported to have reached over 700 acres. Traffic is gridlocked on Pacific Coast Highway and Sunset ...

A line of vehicles stretching two or three miles snaked along Pacific Coast Highway as motorists ... The crystal shone even ...

Pacific Coast Highway, which has been largely off limits since the Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7, finally reopened Monday.

More rain could finally end Southern California's fire season as Pacific Coast Highway reopens for the first time in weeks.

Much of Pacific Coast Highway ... Streets” neighborhood of the Palisades, a mostly flat residential grid in a U-shaped pocket just north of Sunset Boulevard, was blackened rubble and dust.