Flooding, mudslides and debris flows caused by the heaviest rain in Los Angeles and southern California in a year shut Pacific Coast Highway from approximately Santa Monica to the Malibu Pier.

On Friday, the storied coastal road had dissolved into a river of mud and debris after a powerful rainstorm sent those burned hillsides careening toward the ocean, turning canyons into rivers of mud and rocks.

A portion of Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu and Pacific Palisades remains closed Friday morning after a series of mudslides covered the road during Thursday's powerful storm. This video aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on Feb.

In the Los Angeles area, the burn scars that carry the highest risk are those from the Eaton and Palisades fires from January and the Bridge Fire from the fall.

More than 100 homes were under mandatory evacuation orders in the city of Los Angeles, Jim McDonnell, the Los Angeles police chief, said Thursday morning. The Palisades fire destroyed thousands of homes in the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood last month, and hillsides remain vulnerable in the area.

LOS ANGELES – Heavy rain fell across a large swath of Southern California on Feb 13 afternoon as the region braced for intense bouts of precipitation that began to flood roads and threatened to unleash debris flows in areas recently burned by wildfires.

A powerful storm moved through the Los Angeles region Thursday, flooding streets, prompting evacuation warnings, and threatening mudslides in fire-ravaged areas. By Thursday evening, a debris flow had closed Mulholland Drive,

A destructive storm is making its way out of Southern California Friday, but not before flooding streets, neighborhoods and freeways, causing crashes and congestion, and leading to evacuation orders in recent burn areas.

A Los Angeles Fire Department vehicle with a member inside was swept into the ocean by a heavy mudslide during the rain in Malibu.