Series of storms prompts evacuations in burn areas

Sunlight breaks through storm clouds in Manhattan Beach.

Firefighters inspect a home being built on Stanley Avenue in the Hollywood Hills. Amid the rain, soil shifted, and several workers and some nearby residents were evacuated.

Jeff Crawford, left, a supervisor with the Riverside County Transportation Department, surveys debris flowing from Horsethief Canyon, a Holy fire burn area, on Jan. 17. The debris flowed over a section of Temescal Canyon Road, which was closed.

Workers with the city of Malibu clear debris from Clover Heights Avenue near the intersection of Harvester Road on Jan. 16.

Heavy machinery is used Jan. 17 to remove debris flowing from Horsethief Canyon in Riverside County.

With barricades positioned in the street to direct the flow of potential mudslides, a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy keeps watch amid rain in the McVicker Park area of Lake Elsinore.

Elmer Cruz of North Hills uses his umbrella to add an extra layer of protection from the rain while watching an Australian Open tennis match on his mobile device at a Lake Balboa park.

The January storm meant umbrellas on Hollywood Boulevard.

A pedestrian is framed by a mural on Washington Boulevard in Culver City.

Pedestrians make their way through Old Town Pasadena as a week of wet weather continues.

L.A. Department of Building and Safety workers examine a mudslide that damaged a house and a guest house on Boris Drive in Encino.

Will Reid, from Torrance Beach, rides a wave at Zuma Beach in Malibu.

Will Reid, from Torrance Beach, walks out of the water with a broken board after surfing at Zuma Beach in Malibu.

Sean Tabibian takes cellphone photos of a mudslide across the street from his home on Martson Drive in Encino. The mudslide damaged a house and guest house down below along Boris Drive.

Sheriff’s Deputies Ryan Singer, left, and Miguel Herrera walk through Paradise Cove mobile home park in Malibu alerting residents of mandatory evacuations in the Woolsey fire burn areas.

Daniel Lazar, a resident of the Paradise Cove community in Malibu, signs a form for Deputies Ryan Singer, right, and Miguel Herrera, acknowledging that he was disobeying evacuation orders at his own risk.

Deputies Ryan Singer, right, and Miguel Herrera go door to door in Paradise Cove alerting residents of mandatory evacuations.

Sheriff’s Deputy Miguel Herrera knocks on a door in Paradise Cove in Malibu to alert residents of mandatory evacuations.

A crew works to clear a small mudslide on Pacific Coast Highway near Leo Carrillo Beach in Malibu.

Pedestrians hoist umbrellas against the rain on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.

A woman huddles under an umbrella as she walks in the rain in Los Angeles.