President Joe Biden announced Thursday the federal government will cover 100% of the disaster response to the Los Angeles fires for the next six months as first responders continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires following the successful containment of a fire that burned through the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night.

Street after street, there is little but dark ash and ruin where a wealthy seaside enclave favored by celebrities once stood.

A brush fire broke out Tuesday near the Pacific Palisades, a coastal neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles, and quickly exploded.

The Palisades Fire already is the most destructive in Los Angeles history, with at least 1,000 structures burned in the coastline neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.

Many more structures are believed to be destroyed as fire crews struggle to gain containment on the 17,000-acre Palisades Fire: the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history. Preliminary reports indicated the number of damaged or destroyed structures is “in the thousands,

The worst-case scenario has materialized in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles where an estimated 1,000 structures, many of them homes, have been destroyed by a Santa Ana-wind-fueled wildfire,

Billy Crystal and his wife Janice have lost their home of more than four decades to the Pacific Palisades fire. In a statement shared with CNN, Crystal confirmed their house burned down as a result of the now 15,

Billy and Janice Crystal are mourning the loss of their nearly 50-year-old Palisades home that was reduced to ashes by the Los Angeles fire. The actor confirmed the news in a statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday as Palisades wildfires continue to wreak havoc in L.