School Closures Continue In LA County Amid Deadly Fires

LOS ANGELES — Schools across Los Angeles County continued to announce closures as thousands of acres burned from multiple fires that wrought deadly destruction across the region.

More than half a dozen schools in the Los Angeles area were either damaged or destroyed, including Palisades Charter High School, which has been featured in many Hollywood productions, including the 1976 horror movie "Carrie" and the TV series "Teen Wolf," officials said.

"It's just really weird coming back to somewhere that doesn't really exist anymore," said Dylan Vincent, who returned to retrieve some items and saw that his elementary school had burned down and that whole blocks had been flattened.

As the fires continued burning, the following school districts announced closures for Thursday, with some closing Friday as well, according to the county office of education:

• Arcadia Unified School District
• Beverly Hills Unified School District
• Burbank Unified School District (closed through Friday)
• Duarte Unified School District
• Garvey School District
• Glendale Unified School District (closed through Friday)
• Glendora Unified School District
• La Canada Unified (closed through Friday)
• Monrovia Unified School District
• Pasadena Unified School District (closed through Friday)
• San Gabriel Unified School District
• Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District
• South Pasadena Unified School District
• Temple City Unified School District

All Los Angeles Unified School District schools will also be closed Thursday. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3DXfUaY.

Pepperdine University announced its Malibu and Calabasas campuses would be closed Wednesday. As of late Wednesday afternoon, natural gas was out on the Malibu campus, and modified operations were planned for both campuses for Thursday. Caltech's Pasadena campus was closed Wednesday and was set to remain closed for Thursday. UCLA canceled undergraduate classes and moved graduate classes to remote instruction for Thursday and Friday.

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The following school districts reported closures Wednesday:

• Alhambra Unified School District
• Arcadia Unified School District
• Azusa Unified School District
• Baldwin Park Unified School District
• Bonita Unified School District
• Burbank Unified School Disrict
• Duarte Unified School District
• El Monte City School District
• Glendale unified School District
• La Canada Unified School District
• Las Vírgenes School District
• Monrovia Unified School District
• Mountain View School District
• Pasadena Unified School District
• Rosemead School District
• San Gabriel Unified School District
• San Marino Unified School District
• Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District
• South Pasadena Unified School District
• Temple City Unified School District
• Valle Lindo School District

Within the Los Angeles Unified School District, Kenter Canyon Charter Elementary, Canyon Charter Elementary School, Marquez Charter Elementary School, Palisades Charter Elementary School, Paul Revere Charter Middle School and Topanga Elementary Charter School were closed.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.