'Not out of the woods': Fire-scarred LA braces for another round of dangerous winds

The next 24 hours will be very dangerous as high winds blow through the Los Angeles area, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna warned.

The next 24 hours will be very dangerous as high winds blow through the Los Angeles area, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna warned.

He urged residents to follow evacuation orders, noting that many people who waited until the last minute to evacuate last week suffered significant burns.

"We don't want you to impact your own life or the life or your loved ones," Luna said.

The sheriff said conversations around repopulation are ongoing, but he emphasized that he did not want people to feel a false sense of security.

"I don't want people to think everything is OK now. Everything is not OK yet. We'll get there, we'll get there together, but again, the wind is blowing and it's going to continue to blow," Luna said.

The sheriff's department is following 24 missing persons cases, all adults, Luna said. The LAPD said it has 13 active missing persons cases, two of whom are believed to be dead.

No more remains were found when crews searched the hard-hit Altadena area on Monday, the sheriff said.

ABC News contributed to this report.

More than 20,000 donors have given a total of $14 million to the nonprofit California Community Foundation to support recovery efforts prompted by the Southern California wildfires, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said.

"I want to acknowledge the thousands of Angelenos who have come together all across the city to help -- hundreds, thousands of people just showing up, who are providing resources and supplies for victims," Bass said at a Tuesday morning news conference.

The mayor also thanked the Walt Disney Co., Netflix, the Wasserman Foundation, the Hilton Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, Snap Inc. "and so many others for donating millions of dollars to relief efforts.

More than 20,000 donors have given a total of $14 million to the nonprofit California Community Foundation to support recovery efforts prompted by the Southern California wildfires, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said.

"L.A., we stand together," Bass said. "We will do what we need to be safe over the next couple of days, and then we rebuild. We will rebuild Los Angeles and make Los Angeles the world-class city that we are."

Donations to the California Community Foundation's wildfire recovery fund can be made by visiting the organization's website.

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Multiple fires raging across the Los Angeles area will cost insurers as much as $30 billion, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs estimated in a report released this week.

After accounting for non-insured damages, the total costs will balloon to $40 billion, the report said.

The ongoing fires, according to analysts, appear to already be the costliest wildfire event in California history.

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A "particularly dangerous situation" with a red flag warning is in effect for parts of L.A. County and most of Ventura County on Tuesday, weather officials said, with winds threatening to further fuel the region's wildfires.

The warning went into effect at 4 a.m. and will last through noon Wednesday. Winds are forecast to gust between 45 mph to 70 mph, with relative humidity as low as 8%.

The PDS warning stretches across a large swath of Southern California. Though it doesn't include the area where the Palisades Fire is burning, but does get very close to the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area.

The highest wind gusts reached 72 mph in the San Gabriel Mountains early Tuesday and 50 mph in the Malibu area.

The strongest gusts are expected Tuesday morning and early afternoon, which will then be followed by a break in the evening. More gusty winds are expected Wednesday morning.

ABC News contributed to this reporting.