Multiple wildfires, including the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, are raging across Southern California Friday, leaving at least 10 dead and burning more than 10,000 homes across 27,000 acres, officials say.

Hundreds of homes in the Altadena area still had power when a fire erupted there, according to a grid-monitoring company and interviews with residents.

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The fires have burned a total area around twice the size of Manhattan—or the equivalent of about 22,000 football fields.

Evacuees sought refuge and medical care at a Red Cross-run evacuation shelter at the Westwood Recreation Center in Los Angeles. In the hilly areas east and north of downtown off Sunset Boulevard, many homes were almost completely destroyed by the Palisades fire.

Fierce wildfires are raging in the Los Angeles area, with fast-moving flames burning through homes and businesses. Residents are fleeing smoke-filled canyons.

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in the Bell Canyon area of Los Angeles following a pop-up brush fire. NBC News' Jacob Soboroff reports on residents' responses and how dry vegetation combined with hurricane-force winds have created the dangerous conditions they now face.

A pair of massive wildfires menacing Los Angeles from the east and west were still burning unchecked early on Thursday, two days after they ignited, but firefighting crews made progress overnight in controlling a smaller blaze burning in the hills overlooking Hollywood Boulevard.