The Los Angeles Fire was a devastating event that affected thousands of residents across the region. Spreading rapidly due to strong winds and dry conditions, the fire destroyed homes, businesses, and large areas of forestland. Firefighters worked tirelessly day and night to contain the blaze, while evacuation orders forced many families to leave their homes behind. The skies turned orange, and the air was thick with smoke, making it difficult to breathe.
Two wildfires in the Los Angeles area have killed at least 10 people and burned some 10,000 homes and structures, local officials said, as a new blaze prompted the evacuation of thousands of more residents.
The latest blaze, the Kenneth fire, broke out in West Hills, a neighbourhood in the San Fernando Valley, on Thursday afternoon as fire crews were still battling to bring the Palisades and Eaton fires under control.
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The wind whips up embers as the Palisades fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles, California [Ringo Chiu/Reuters]
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Firefighters battle the Palisades fire as it burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles. [Ringo Chiu/Reuters]
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Evacuation orders were expanded Tuesday night as the fires grew and included parts of the popular ski town of Big Bear and the entire community of Wrightwood, with about 4,500 residents. [Eric Thayer/AP Photo]
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A resident reacts as a wildfire, fanned by strong winds, approaches the village of Ano Loutro, some 131 kilometres (81 miles) west of Athens, Greece, in the region of Corinthia [AP Photo]
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Greece this year experienced its hottest summer after its warmest winter on record, which left large areas with scant or no rain. [AP Photo]
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A firefighter tries to extinguish the flames near the village of Kallithea. [AP Photo]
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A firefighter prepares to douse flames while battling the Mountain Fire. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]
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Firefighters and sheriff’s deputies push a vintage car away from a burning home as the Mountain Fire burns in Camarillo. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]
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Firefighters were pushed back by gusty winds while removing fuel around the faculty and staff residences at Pepperdine University. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
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Authorities said that based on initial inspections, at least 132 homes had been completely destroyed, with 88 more damaged by the fires. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]
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Flames from the Mountain Fire leap along a hillside as a horse stands in an enclosure at Swanhill Farms in Moorpark. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]
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“We have been fighting fire actively now for 26 hours, and we found all of those fire trucks hooked up to all of those hydrants, and we drained water systems down,” Ventura County fire chief Dustin Gardner told reporters. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
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The brush fire blaze – dubbed the Franklin Fire – forced students at Pepperdine University in Malibu to shelter in place overnight, as it knocked out power and led some students to evacuate to the school’s commons and library. [Eric Thayer/AP Photo]
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People evacuated residences at Pepperdine University as the Franklin Fire approached in Malibu. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
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Vegetation around the Phillips Theme Tower at Pepperdine University was scorched by the Franklin Fire in Malibu. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
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Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore. [Eric Thayer/AP Photo]
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Firefighters protected structures as the Franklin Fire approached. [Eric Thayer/AP Photo]
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Deputy sheriffs in Malibu, California, just north of Los Angeles, were going door to door before the break of dawn on Tuesday ordering people to evacuate as a nearby wildfire rapidly intensified, threatening homes in the beach community. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
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Malibu opened evacuation sites while power was shut off across the city. [Eric Thayer/AP Phot
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Evacuation orders were issued in locations across the picturesque coastal city of 10,000 after the fire, which began on Monday night, grew to 737 hectares (1,821 acres), and spread south over the Pacific Coast Highway. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
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A home burns in the Franklin Fire in Malibu, California, the US. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]
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A firefighter battles the Eaton fire. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
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The Palisades fire burns a beachfront property. [Etienne Laurent/AP Photo]
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Helicopter pilots worked through the night on Wednesday, dropping water, said Ventura County Fire Department Captain Trevor Johnson. [Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo]
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Megan Mantia, left, and her boyfriend Thomas, return to Mantia’s fire-damaged home after the Eaton fire swept through the area. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
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People use garden hoses to protect a roof from embers as the Eaton wildfire burns nearby in Altadena. [Caroline Brehman/EPA]
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Burned cars in a lot were destroyed by the Eaton wildfire in Altadena. [Caroline Brehman/EPA]
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A firefighting helicopter drops water as a wildfire burns in the village of Pyrgos, near Corinth. [Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP]
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Police officers remove an elderly resident from her home during the Eaton fire. [Robyn Beck/AFP]
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Water is dropped by helicopter on the burning Sunset fire in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
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Todd Howard, left, sifts through the remains of his parents’ destroyed property with the help of firefighters. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
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The cause of the fire was not immediately known, but meteorologists had raised a Red Flag Warning and a rare Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) warning in the area, indicating dangerous fire conditions. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
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Marvin Meador walks on the remains of his fire-ravaged property after the Mountain Fire swept through Camarillo. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
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People enjoy the view of the Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill, as smoke blankets Athens. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]
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More than 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate northwest of Los Angeles. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]
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The sun shines through smoke above ruins of homes from the Palisades fire in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles. [Allison Dinner/EPA]
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Smoke and flames overwhelm a commercial area engulfed by the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County. [Josh Edelson/AFP]
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The sun sets behind the Philopappos hill as smoke from a wildfire located some 150km (93 miles) southwest of Athens covers the sky over the western suburbs of Greece’s capital. [Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo]
