Images and videos purporting to show the historic Hollywood sign engulfed in flames are spreading across X and other social media platforms as wildfires rage through Los Angeles, California. But the visuals are fakes,

An expert on generative AI says the image is a fabrication. The chair of the group that maintains the sign says it was not affected by the fires.

Several fake images of the Hollywood Sign burning have appeared on social as some users suggest the iconic sign is "surrounded by fire."

At least five people have been killed and thousands of structures have burned in wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area

The confirmed death toll from three days of raging wildfires rose to 10 people late Thursday as firefighters struggled to contain blazes that have destroyed swaths of America’s most populated county.At least five infernos were burning simultaneously around Los Angeles,