Uncontrolled wildfires rage through Los Angeles, leaving a trail of destruction, displacement, and loss of life. Thousands are evacuated as firefighters battle the infernos.
Two massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles were totally uncontained on Thursday, authorities said, as shell-shocked residents began to pick through the charred wreckage of their homes. Swaths of the United States’ second-largest city lay eerily deserted due to the fires’ destruction and sweeping evacuation orders, with smoke blanketing the sky and its acrid smell pervading almost every building.
A vast firefighting operation continued for a third day, bolstered by water-dropping helicopters thanks to a temporary lull in winds. Amid the chaos, looting broke out, with at least 20 arrests made so far, officials said. The biggest fire, which has ripped through 17,000 acres (6,900 hectares) of the upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood, is “one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles,” city fire chief Kristin Crowley told a press conference. Another 10,000-acre fire in Altadena in which at least five people died was also at “zero-percent containment,” although spreading had “significantly stopped” as wind gusts reduced, county fire chief Anthony Marrone said
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