Los Angeles police officers were hit with fireworks and bottles during street celebrations after the Dodgers World Series win late Saturday, prompting police to authorize the use of tear gas to quell the chaos.

Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division announced early Sunday that less-lethal munitions and tear gas had been authorized around Olympic Boulevard and Grand Avenue.

"CS gas has been authorized by the Incident Commander," an X post read. "Officers are being hit by industrial size fireworks and bottles."

It was not immediately clear whether any officers were injured.

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Photos and video from downtown Los Angeles show police officers in helmets and some wearing gas masks. Smoke can be seen rising from the streets as the sound of multiple fireworks crack through the night.

Some smoke appeared to come from cars performing donuts and burning out tires at a street takeover, FOX11 Los Angeles reported. 

One photo showed a Waymo vehicle with broken windows and painted with graffiti on Sunset Boulevard.

The street celebrations broke out in Los Angeles after the Dodgers’ thrilling Game 7 comeback win over the Toronto Blue Jays in extra innings. The Dodgers triumphed 5-4 over Toronto after catcher Will Smith hit the go-ahead home run in the 11th inning.

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who was the Game 6 starter, gave the Dodgers 2.2 innings in relief, closing out the game with a double play for the win.

Los Angeles captured back-to-back titles, becoming the first team to do so since the 1999 and 2000 New York Yankees.

Fox News Digital’s Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

The United States and China plan to establish military-to-military communications channels "to deconflict and deescalate" potential problems, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Saturday after talking with his Chinese counterpart.

In a post on X, Hegseth said he had a "positive meeting" with Admiral Dong Jun, China’s Minister of National Defense, in the wake of President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

During their talk, the two defense leaders agreed that the best path forward for the U.S. and China involves "peace, stability, and good relations."

"Admiral Dong and I also agreed that we should set up military-to-military channels to deconflict and deescalate any problems that arise. We have more meetings on that coming soon. God bless both China and the USA!" Hegseth wrote, in part.

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Earlier Saturday, Hegseth attended a separate meeting in Malaysia with defense leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), where he urged them to push back against Beijing’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea.

"China’s sweeping territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea fly in the face of their commitments to resolve disputes peacefully," Hegseth said at the meeting, according to The Associated Press. 

"We seek peace. We do not seek conflict. But we must ensure that China is not seeking to dominate you or anybody else," he added.

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The South China Sea remains volatile with Beijing, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei all claiming overlapping territories. 

China's maritime fleet has frequently clashed with the Philippines in the disputed waters, with Chinese officials recently describing the country as a "troublemaker" for staging naval and air drills with the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.

Hegseth defended the U.S. ally during the Saturday meeting by saying Beijing's designation of the Scarborough Shoal – a territory seized from the Philippines in 2012 – as a "nature reserve" "yet another attempt to coerce new and expanded territorial and maritime claims at your expense."

The War Secretary then urged ASEAN to finalize the Code of Conduct with China and proposed creating a "shared maritime domain awareness" network and rapid-response systems to deter provocations – measures he said would ensure that any member facing "aggression and provocation is not alone."

Hegseth also welcomed plans for an ASEAN-U.S. maritime exercise in December aimed at strengthening coordination and safeguarding freedom of navigation.