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The devastating wildfires in California are continuing to spread despite the efforts of firefighters. More than 10,000 homes and other buildings have been destroyed with entire neighbourhoods reduced to ashes.

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00:00Massive wildfires continue to burn out of control around Los Angeles with more high winds forecast into tomorrow.
00:07Almost 180,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes so far.
00:12And this is what the flames are leaving behind.
00:14Entire neighborhoods completely destroyed, everything gone.
00:18Only the charred remains of trees have been left standing.
00:22The first fire to erupt was on Tuesday in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
00:27It spread rapidly.
00:29Look at how fast it moved in just five hours.
00:33It now covers more than 17,000 acres of land.
00:37That blaze alone is now one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of L.A.
00:43There are still five fires alight around the city.
00:46Two of them, the Palisades and Hearst fires, are still zero percent contained.
00:52They're out of control.
00:53You can see from this time lapse of the Palisades fire just how quickly it spread, fanned by hurricane force winds.
01:00And this is another neighborhood, Altadena.
01:02This satellite imagery shows the homes and buildings street after street completely engulfed.
01:07Five people are known to have died, but the L.A. Sheriff says that number will rise.
01:12Well, let's go straight to our correspondent, Emma Vardy, who is in L.A.
01:16Emma.
01:18Well, fire crews are now into their third day of fighting fires on many fronts,
01:24and authorities are beginning to look into what started them.
01:27Arson investigators, we're told, are now part of this, but authorities haven't drawn any firm conclusions just yet.
01:35Today, the fire's growth has been slowed down, but still, many parts of this city will never look the same again.
01:48Still, they burn, the most catastrophic fires Los Angeles has ever seen.
01:54Overnight, the Hollywood Hills resembling a disaster movie, a huge crescent of flame engulfing an iconic community of California.
02:03More than 130,000 people have been told to evacuate their homes.
02:08Here, just one of many properties engulfed, turned to a shell.
02:18At least five major fires have been burning across Los Angeles County.
02:23The scale and spread has stretched firefighting crews on the ground and in the air.
02:3616,000 acres and counting consumed by the inferno.
02:43One street filmed by a local resident moments before he left.
02:51I thought maybe I would be able to get some extra stuff that we didn't take
02:56and come to see that the whole street is just gone.
03:00It's like a war zone.
03:01And we had so many memories in here that cannot be replaced.
03:05I had these great old pictures of my grandfather from World War II, both grandfathers,
03:10and I was going to get them framed, and now they're gone and they're lost.
03:14And I had so many things that are just lost forever.
03:16I know we're safe, but I don't understand.
03:24The scale of this disaster is clear to see.
03:28This is Pacific Palisades, block after block, a blanket of destruction.
03:34More than 1,000 buildings burned in this community alone.
03:39Emergency services unable to save them.
03:43We had everything, like the sentimental things, like my mom passed away.
03:48I had only a few things of hers left.
03:51My wedding dress, our wedding album, we left everything, our albums.
03:56We have just whatever we're wearing.
03:59We're wearing the same thing for the last two days.
04:02Copy that.
04:06Fueled by hurricane-force winds, these fires have struck at a vulnerable time.
04:11L.A. hasn't seen any significant rainfall for months.
04:17Abandoned neighborhoods are now falling prey to crime.
04:21In the midst of the emergency, we've all seen individuals who are targeting vulnerable communities
04:26by burglarizing and looting homes.
04:30This is simply unacceptable.
04:34As dawn came in the Palisades, it revealed the grim reality of what the fire has left behind.
04:41There are miles and miles of streets like this, an utter shock at the devastation here.
04:47Communities just vanished, now ghost towns, and once dream homes turned to dust.
04:56No-one is immune. Mansions now ash.
05:02The homes of Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler and Paris Hilton among those evacuated.
05:08And this was filmed by the wife of Take That star Mark Owen as they escaped through the flames.
05:17Some are returning to the ruins to see what remains.
05:21A scene that will be repeated in this ravaged city over the coming days.
05:27Emma Vardy, BBC News, Los Angeles.
05:30President Biden has just described the L.A. fires as the most devastating in California's history.
05:36Have a look at these before and after images of the destruction that the flames have left behind.
05:41This was someone's home in Altadena, and this is what it looks like now.
05:45North of there, the Pasadena Jewish temple and center has been completely gutted.
05:51And this business in the Pacific Palisades, where the largest fire is still burning, was not spared either.
05:58Our correspondent John Sudworth has been to the Palisades and spoken to some of those people who have been affected.
06:07Late into the night, we watch one of America's wealthiest neighborhoods burn.
06:15The flames so intense, the fire crews are powerless to stop them.
06:21So if I very quickly take my mask off, the air is absolutely thick with smoke.
06:27The fire crews here tell us they have a shortage of water.
06:31And in many instances, they're having to stand and watch these properties burn.
06:35It is a losing battle.
06:37They're using what little they have sparingly, trying to contain the spread.
06:44Defying the evacuation orders, some residents are defending their own homes.
06:49With all the surrounding properties burning, I help Tony and his neighbors scooping water out of the swimming pool and dousing the flames at their boundary.
07:00Since 1993, I've seen a couple of fires, but nothing like this.
07:06I wouldn't see this in my nightmare.
07:09David was hoping his home might have survived.
07:13But the whole neighborhood has gone.
07:16And with it, his house too.
07:24I would have thought I'd be seeing more planes flying over with water.
07:28I mean, there appears to be just two, I mean, in California.
07:34I would have thought the firemen would, like, take a stand on a certain area.
07:38Maybe they did, and I'm just not seeing it, but...
07:44Wealth and privilege are no protection from this disaster.
07:48With the ordinary human defenses rendered by the government,
07:52it's hard to imagine what would have happened if it weren't for the firemen.
07:57Wealth and privilege are no protection from this disaster.
08:00With the ordinary human defences rendered futile in the face of its devastating force.
08:07John Sudworth, BBC News, Pacific Palisades.
08:12Well, almost 180,000 people have been told to evacuate.
08:16A further 200,000 LA residents are under evacuation warnings,
08:20which means they may have to flee at a moment's notice.
08:24What happens to all those people who have lost their homes, lost everything?
08:27Where do they go?
08:28Well, many of them have made their way to evacuation centres,
08:32like this one in Pasadena.
08:34John Sudworth is at another centre in Westwood near Beverly Hills.
08:38He joins us now, John.
08:42Well, Sophie, this particular evacuation centre has taken more than 200 people
08:48sleeping in this building here last night,
08:52catering provided by the Salvation Army.
08:56And, of course, for lots of those people, having seen their homes burned,
09:00there is nowhere else to turn.
09:02One of those people is Marina.
09:04Marina is from Ukraine.
09:06She only arrived in America four months ago as part of a programme
09:10that has brought thousands of Ukrainians to America.
09:13Marina, tell me what happened to you yesterday.
09:16Well, it was a windy morning.
09:19I left from my home to work, and I saw a little smoke near my hood,
09:26but I don't think that it was something big.
09:30So when I tried to come home after five hours,
09:34I saw that the roads were closed and too many fire departments and police cars,
09:41and I started to worry.
09:44And then I just came back to Santa Monica Pier
09:47just to watch what happened there because everything was in smoke,
09:51and I saw the fireflames, and they were so big.
09:55And then I just saw the place where my house was built,
09:59where my building was situated.
10:01It's burning, and there is burning everything,
10:04like cars and nature and houses and mine.
10:09So I just lost everything because I just went to work like that,
10:15and I don't have anything, documents, nothing.
10:20So it's a very terrible, terrible story.
10:24You've only been in America for four months.
10:26You came here escaping the disaster of the war in Ukraine.
10:31What will happen to you next now?
10:34Actually, I don't know, but the only way I can say that I will not give up,
10:41so I just try to move on and start my life again.
10:44That's it.
10:46Marina, thank you for talking to us.
10:47We wish you all the best in these very difficult circumstances.
10:51Sophie, we've seen all day today volunteers turning up here,
10:55bringing food and supplies.
10:57With a disaster like this, of course, everybody in this city
11:00knows somebody who's been affected.
11:02John, thank you.
11:04Well, there have been some incredible stories of rescues and bravery
11:07as people fled their homes,
11:09and the neighborhoods now look like this,
11:11completely deserted for block after block,
11:14houses completely destroyed.
11:16Many of the people who have escaped have been talking about the speed
11:19with which the fires have been spreading,
11:21including Aaron Sampson, who helped his father-in-law get out.
11:24Here is their story.
11:26We've just been evacuated.
11:28We've just been evacuated from this good Samaritan's car.
11:31You got it, Dad.
11:32We're having to walk.
11:34This is crazy.
11:36There's a fire right outside our car.
11:39Not that way, Dad, Dad.
11:41My father-in-law has Parkinson's. He can barely move.
11:44This was a heroic effort on his part.
11:46It's very wobbly. Here, let me try to get it.
11:48Which way do I go?
11:49This way, Dad, to the sidewalk.
11:51I went outside, I saw smoke and fire near my father-in-law's house
11:55and realized we need to go.
11:57The problem is we didn't have a car.
11:59By circumstance, we had no car in the house.
12:02I ran up and down the street where he was, Glenhaven,
12:06finally found a neighbor who was willing to swing by and pick us up.
12:09Most people had already gone at that point.
12:12And at that point, I grabbed his medicine.
12:15That's the only thing I could think to grab.
12:17Turn around, Dad. We got this.
12:18And at that point, we jumped in his car.
12:20This guy, Jeff, a neighbor we'd never met before,
12:23but, you know, salt of the earth, saved our lives.
12:26As we're driving down, there's fires on both sides of the car.
12:30As we're driving, we're suddenly seeing fires.
12:32You can feel the heat.
12:33And then the fires were getting closer and closer.
12:35And at that point, just being stuck there, surrounded by fire,
12:39the policemen started running up the street,
12:41get out of the car, get out of the car, and started screaming.
12:46You don't really realize how serious it is.
12:48You don't think this is a life-threatening situation.
12:52Aaron Sampson's story there, escaping with his father.
12:55In the last few moments,
12:56President Biden has been speaking about the fires.
12:59Here's what he had to say.
13:01To the firefighters and first responders, you really are.
13:04It's not hyperbole. You're heroes.
13:06You're genuinely heroes.
13:08And the worst, you know,
13:10this is the most widespread devastating fire
13:12in California's history.
13:14It's amazing.
13:16Let's join Emma Vardy, who is in Pacific Palisades.
13:19And, Emma, the President there speaking
13:21about the worst fires in California's history.
13:24The fires are still burning,
13:25but thoughts are also turning to what happens now.
13:28How do you stop rebuilding any of this?
13:33People are gradually returning to scenes like this
13:36where there is absolutely nothing for them left.
13:39We've been witnessing the wreckage all around us.
13:42There's the melted metal of burnt cars,
13:45just pieces of people's possessions
13:47that you can make out on the floor.
13:49And then every now and again,
13:50a house has been spared the flames,
13:52as miraculously is still standing.
13:54But in abandoned neighborhoods like this,
13:56looting has now become an issue.
13:58Police say they've made 20 arrests for looting.
14:01They've stepped up patrols.
14:02They're warning people coming back into these areas
14:05that they will clamp down on looting very seriously.
14:08Now, there have been reported five deaths so far
14:11in these fires,
14:12but we know that investigators are currently examining
14:15other human remains that have been found
14:17in burnt-out properties,
14:18so that number may well rise.
14:21And, of course, while this is all still going on
14:23on the ground,
14:24the questions for political leaders have begun.
14:27Questions over cuts to fire budgets,
14:29over whether California was prepared enough
14:31for a natural disaster like this,
14:33because it's clear that the road to recovery for L.A.
14:36is going to be a very long one.

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