Mandy Moore, Anna Faris, Milo Ventimiglia, Paris Hilton, Jeff Bridges, Bozoma Saint John, Mel Gibson, Billy Crystal, James Woods and Diane Warren are among the celebrities whose houses were destroyed by the blazes.

Social media users have been sharing fake images of the Hollywood sign burning as deadly wildfires raged across Los Angeles, but the famous landmark was not impacted, according to witnesses.

Five people are confirmed dead and more than 137,000 people have been evacuated as some Hollywood stars lose their homes in the blaze.

The fires tearing through Los Angeles are a new threat to an entertainment industry trying to emerge from a slowdown and twin labor strikes.

The devastating wildfires that continue to ravage the celebrity-filled enclave of Pacific Palisades and other areas have forced a production shutdown across Los Angeles, as well as the cancellation of a number of key award season events that were set to take place this week.

"Severance," "Hollywood is pausing production and cancelling premieres amid the ongoing wildfires that have sent California into a state of emergency.

As wildfires continue to rage across Los Angeles county, legendary Public Enemy front man Chuck D is asking social media users not to use the group's 1990 protest song "Burn Hollywood Burn" to celebrate those who have lost their homes in the devastation.

"[The song] has nothing to do with families, losing everything they have in a natural disaster. Learn the history," Chuck D wrote on Instagram

When Public Enemy's Chuck D wrote Burn Hollywood Burn as a scathing indictment of the film industry's treatment of black actors and the LAPD's infamous racial profiling for his band's third album, Fear Of A Black Planet,