Storm clean-up work continues as crews monitor burn scar areas

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A series of back-to-back storms has dropped significant rain across Southern California, triggering the risk of mudslides, flooding and debris flows in recent burn scar areas.

The possibility of scattered showers were forecast through Friday evening in many parts of the region.

The bulk of the storm moved through Southern California early Thursday amid evacuation warnings.

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Mar 13, 2025, 8:44 PM

Maps shows SoCal burn scar areas under evacuations amid rainstorm

As a late-winter storm brings rain to Southern California, evacuation orders and warnings have been issued in recent wildfire burn areas in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Official interactive maps show where evacuations are in effect, including the areas impacted by the Palisades, Eaton, Kenneth and Airport fires.

Los Angeles County officials issued evacuation warnings and "address specific" evacuation orders in places vulnerable to mudslides, including recent burn areas. Those orders remained in effect Thursday.

Orange County Public Information Map: Click here to see where OC evacuations are in effect.

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Mar 13, 2025, 5:08 PM GMT

Video shows howling winds as tornado rips through Pico Rivera

New video shows the moment a tornado hit a Pico Rivera neighborhood.

The EF0 tornado happened around 3:15 a.m. and lasted about two minutes with 85 miles per hour winds, officials said.

The EF0 tornado happened around 3:15 a.m. and lasted about two minutes with 85 miles per hour winds, officials said.

Video from a neighbor's home surveillance camera captured the ferocious winds. Seconds later, you can hear car alarms going off.

You also see what some people thought were explosions, but it was just the parked vehicles' lights going off.

The NWS sent a team of six meteorologists to survey the damage that spanned across four blocks near Glencannon Drive and Church Street, which included several toppled trees and downtown power lines.

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Mar 13, 2025, 4:20 PM GMT

Tornado hits Pico Rivera, knocking down trees and power lines

A tornado hit a Pico Rivera neighborhood early Thursday morning, the National Weather Service has confirmed.

The EF0 tornado happened around 3:15 a.m. and lasted about two minutes with 85 miles per hour winds, officials said.

The NWS sent a team of six meteorologists to survey the damage that spanned across four blocks near Glencannon Drive and Church Street, which included several toppled trees and downtown power lines.

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It doesn't appear there was any significant damage to homes, but tiles were ripped off of some roofs.
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Mar 13, 2025, 7:59 PM GMT

Storm brings snow to SoCal mountains

A powerful storm that hit Southern California overnight brought heavy rain and plenty of snow to mountain communities.

Video from the San Bernardino Mountains received heavy snow that blanketed the roads in Running Springs and Highway 18.

A powerful storm that hit Southern California overnight brought heavy rain and plenty of snow to mountain communities.

Big Bear is expecting as much as 14 inches of snow from this storm. Lower elevations could see 4-8 inches.

According to the National Weather Service, the Mountain High area received 10-18 inches of snow this week.

Meanwhile, an evacuation warning was in place for multiple homes in Wrightwood that are in the middle of the Bridge Fire burn scar.

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Mar 13, 2025, 4:19 PM GMT

Trabuco Canyon in OC sees wet roads, debris and mud

As evacuation orders remain near the Airport Fire burn scar area in Orange County, areas like Trabuco Canyon are seeing debris, mud and tree branches scattered across wet roads.

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for Trabuco, Bell and Hot Springs canyons due to possible debris flows.

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for Trabuco, Bell and Hot Springs canyons due to possible debris flows.

Long and Modjeska canyons remain under a voluntary evacuation warning.

Orange County Public Works Public Information Officer Shannon Widor said crews worked late Wednesday night to prepare. He said there wasn't as much debris as last month's storm.

"[During the last storm,] we removed about 126,000 pounds of ... tree sections, large rocks, mud. This is slightly less than what we saw in February, but you can see it still makes an impact to the roadway," he said.

"I would not say this is not the end of it," he added. "Obviously, the fire burn scar area just north of us covered a lot of land, we just don't know what could be remaining. Also, it depends on the amount of rain we get in future storms, so a lot of variables to consider."