"We're out there with shovels throwing dirt on fires. We saved I think three neighbors' houses so far," Altadena resident David Stewart says, while firefighters battle three out-of-control wildfires fuelled by hurricane-force winds which are tearing through Los Angeles's suburbs, destroying dozens of houses.
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00:00I've lived in this area for over 20 years and we've seen fires in the mountains and
00:29the hills and that, but never anything like this.
00:33My son left the house before us on foot.
00:35He doesn't have a cell phone or anything like that, so I'm searching for him now.
00:39I'm looking for him.
00:55I had anxiety really bad.
00:57I didn't think I could make it, but then when the fire started getting close, my brother,
01:02my friend, and me, we grabbed shovels.
01:05The county turned off our water supply, so we're out there with shovels throwing dirt
01:10on fires.
01:11We saved, I think, three neighbors' houses so far, but the fires are still moving towards
01:16our house.