WATCH LIVE: Officials provide update as Los Angeles area wildfires continue

Heavy police and National Guard patrols and checkpoints enforced curfew and evacuation orders as residents braced for more high winds Monday and into this week, further tangling efforts to tamp down the explosion of fires across Southern California that have killed at least 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. The winds could threaten the incremental progress firefighters made over the weekend with the Pacific Palisades Fire − the most destructive in the history of Los Angeles. The fire, only 13% contained, has scorched 36 square miles and transformed the community into ash. The high winds that had eased somewhat Sunday, allowing firefighters and rescue crews to begin gaining some control, were forecast to return Monday with coastal winds reaching 40-50 mph.