Thursday night's home Lakers game against the Charlotte Hornets has been postponed "to focus on what matters most today," the Los Angeles team announced.

"We're heartbroken for Los Angeles," the team said in a statement on X. "Our thoughts are with all those impacted by this unimaginable situation."

Director and producer Jon Turteltaub spoke to ABC Los Angeles station KABC about the devastation in the Pacific Palisades.

"We spend our lives in the Palisades. There are no Palisades. It's done," the "Cool Runnings" director and Malibu resident told the station on Thursday. "I don't know what you do."

Turteltaub remarked how what's known as the "Alphabet Streets" in the neighborhood were largely leveled.

"Pacific Palisades, right now, could just be taken off the map," he said. "There is no Pacific Palisades."

The Pentagon "will continue to stand ready to surge support as needed" to the wildfire response, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said during a press briefing in Germany on Thursday.

That includes offering "federal air assets that California can request to help fight the fire from the sky" and any assistance in personnel and equipment that can be surged from U.S. military bases in California, he said.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden directed the Department of Defense to provide additional firefighting personnel and capabilities, including ordering 10 Navy helicopters with water buckets from San Diego to head to Los Angeles to help put out the fires. Two Modular Air Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) units are also being deployed from each of the California and Nevada National Guards to spread fire retardant.

Asked why more troops and aircraft haven't been sent to assist California and whether it was because California hasn't asked, Austin reiterated that the "U.S. military stands ready to assist in any way that we possibly can to help the people of California" and pointed out that the state "has a lot of capability on its own."

He agreed that the fires are "pretty significant" and that while "few requests have been made thus far, we stand ready to surge capability in as quickly as possible."

Austin pointed out that the MAFFS systems have been sent and will be used when the winds allow.

"We're going to make sure that we remain closely linked to the director of FEMA and the leadership in California to ensure that if they have a need, then we're ready to respond," he said.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez

Mayor Karen Bass deflected when asked about the city's preparation for the fires and her decision to travel to Ghana for its president's inauguration while serious warnings were in place for wildfires.

Bass said that should not be the focus at the moment.

"We have to protect lives, we have to save lives and we have to save homes. Rest assured, when that is done, we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what didn't work," Bass told reporters Thursday.

"My focus right now is on the lives and on the homes," Bass said.

Bass was also asked about a reduction in budget for fire, to which she highlighted the serious budget deficit and said the numbers cited could be misleading because some funding could initially be held back. She said she did not believe reduced funding had any detrimental effect on fighting these wildfires.

"I'm not here to talk about our budget," Bass added.