Images of the wreckage revealed that the single-family home had been split in half. The nearly 1,000-square-foot house was listed for rent on Zillow last year.

Bryan Kirkwood, who was hired to provide security for homes that survived the fire, told KTLA, "This is devastating. I didn’t realize it was this bad. I didn’t see the news, got out here and looked and it didn’t hit me until now. Wow. This is a big deal." He speculated that the mudslide likely originated from a home located just above the damaged property.

Mark Pestrella, Los Angeles County Public Works Director, explained that the agency is working with the California Department of Transportation to reinforce areas where the fires have weakened the soil. "To address this, we are developing plans for both areas to capture and hold this debris back as much as we can during a rain event," Pestrella said during a Thursday news conference.

Landslides can be triggered when rainfall or, in this case, water from the prolonged firefight, saturates loose soil, causing it to slide. Pestrella warned, "No matter where you live in L.A. County, if you have slopes behind your homes or you’re located on top of a slope, these slopes have become fragile. The soil that is supporting your home has all become fragile and damaged, due to the events that we’ve had, wind included. ... There are mud and debris flow hazards that are existing even when it’s not raining, so we want people to be very careful."