Five people have been killed and over 100,000 displaced by devastating wildfires raging across Southern California.
Devastating wildfires in California kill five, displace 100,000, and destroy entire neighborhoods. Residents fight back with shovels and resilience as winds fuel the blaze. Firefighters operate as smoke and flames rise from the Sunset Fire in the hills overlooking the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles , California , U.S. January 8, 2025.
/ Photo: Reuters Homes reduced to ashes, businesses in flames, and in the midst of the devastation, haggard residents: the California city of Altadena, ravaged Wednesday by a violent fire, looked like an area that has just been bombed. 'This was our home,' William Gonzales told AFP, pointing to smouldering ruins where only embers and a chimney remain.Swathes of the Los Angeles area have been ravaged since Tuesday by violent fires that have killed at least five people. More than 100,000 people have been told to flee their homes in the face of flames and violent winds that have gusted up to 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour. In Altadena, behind the mountains north of Los Angeles, firefighters have been overwhelmed by the scale of a blaze that has already destroyed around 500 buildings, including many homes.AFP met a shopkeeper in his sixties who was crying in front of the ruins of his liquor store.A dazed Jesus Herna ndez said he did not know if his parents would be compensated for their $1.3 million house. 'Hopefully the insurance can pay for most of it, if not, then we're going to have to stay with friends or someone,' he said. A new wildfire has erupted in the scrublands of Los Angeles' iconic Hollywood Hills, intensifying the crisis as it joins five other blazes already raging across the city. Our correspondent Martin Markovits has more Fires have sprouted all over the Los Angeles area in little more than 24 hours, with the latest breaking out in the Hollywood Hills, mere yards (metres) from storied Hollywood Boulevard. Vicious winds have flung embers up to 4 kilometres (2 miles) away, fanning the flames and hindering firefighting efforts
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