You are not allowed to be in these affected areas. If you do, you can be arrested, says Sheriff Robert Luna on Friday.
According to Luna, the measure is being taken to protect property that people have been ordered to leave and "to prevent break-ins or looting". The curfew applies to Pacific Palisades and Eaton.
Earlier, California's National Guard has been deployed to prevent, among other things, looting in the fire-affected areas. But many who have been evacuated have stated that they do not trust that enough is being done in their areas.
Altadena resident Nicholas Norman says that he has seen people feeling doors and looking into windows in evacuated houses in the middle of the night. He decided to take matters into his own hands.
I did the classic American thing: I went out and got my shotgun and sat out there and lit a lamp so they knew that people were there, he says.
The destruction is random in the normally quiet town of Altadena where he lives. In some places, entire streets have disappeared, on other streets, some houses remain, and a few blocks away, most houses are still intact.
At least 20 people have already been arrested in the evacuation zones, reports the Los Angeles Times.
