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At least five wildfires are still raging around Los Angeles,
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including one engulfing the iconic Hollywood Hills.
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Fire chiefs say they're hard to control and rapidly expanding as they approach some of the city's iconic landmarks.
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The intense flames have been difficult to tackle because of high winds,
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dry conditions and low water pressure.
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Five people are confirmed dead
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and more than 137,000 homes have been evacuated in what has now become the most destructive wildfire in LA's history.
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Buildings on Sunset Boulevard, the famous strip that stretches for miles through West Hollywood,
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are lying in ruins after being destroyed by the power of the blaze.
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The largest fires in Palisades and Eton remain entirely uncontained.
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That means firefighters are prioritising saving lives rather than trying to put out the flames.
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Three smaller fires are also still burning.
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Well, these images show you what a house in Altadena looked like before the fire broke out
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and how it is now after being engulfed.
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And it's the same for this cafe in Palisades.
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The building has been completely destroyed.
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Our correspondent Helena Humphrey has this report from LA.
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A picture of utter devastation.
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The flames here are pitiless,
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sparing nothing in their path,
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not the glitzy houses of Pacific Palisades, nor the hillsides.
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The imagery of this is next level.
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It's shocking.
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I mean, I was down to my knees
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when I got up to my parents' house with just sheer amazement at what I was looking at,
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which was basically just a chimney stack and a pile of ash.
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I mean, it's something out of a movie.
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With the fires still burning,
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more people are being told to evacuate their homes,
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faced with the agonizing decision of what to take and what to leave behind.
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You look at something, you go,
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you know what, I've had that for almost all my life,
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but you know what, I can let that go.
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I can let it go.
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I can let it go.
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And then I took photographs and things that meant something,
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a little, a little figurine that my daddy bought for me
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when I was five
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or you know some those kinds of things southern California is used to wildfires
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but not like this January is supposed to bring rain instead the ground is tinder dry
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Palisades the first blaze to break out on Tuesday has now become the most destructive in LA's history
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hurricane strength winds fanning the flames some desperately trying to protect their homes I know this looks pretty stupid,
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but if I can save one ember from burning down my house,
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I will take the risk.
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AMNA NAWAZ, The downtown of Pacific Palisades is nearly wiped out.
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Its celebrity-filled suburbs, home to Tom Hanks,
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Ben Affleck and Reese Witherspoon, now deserted.
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Vice President Carmela Harris's Los Angeles residents also affected.
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What residents will return to, no one knows.
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I will be OK.
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I'm tough.
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And we will start over.
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You are tough.
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Even though I'm 91 years old,
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I will start over again.
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AMNA NAWAZ, The scale and severity of these blazes is changing day by day.
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Here in Hollywood, in the hills,
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another fire on the horizon showing how the situation can change in an instant.
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On the ground, there's limited water supply.
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The wildfires have caused massive issues for power supply too,
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affecting 1.5 million people.
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The Eaten fire is now at around 10,600 acres with zero percent containment.
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But we have over 2,000 city employees deployed and working nonstop to address this.
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But promises of help will do little to calm fears.
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Scientists warn that wildfires in the region are growing faster and more unpredictable,
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fuelled by climate change.
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As residents watch the orange haze on the horizon,
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all they can do is wonder what the next hours will bring.
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Helena Humphrey, BBC News, Los Angeles.
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I want to show you these live pictures.
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This is what it looks like in Los Angeles right now,
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just after 5 o'clock in the morning.
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You can see there the flames still burning out of control.
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And we can speak to CBS reporter Chris Van Cleve, who is there.
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Chris, what's the latest where you are?
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We're in the Altadena area of Los Angeles.
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That's eastern L.A.
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County.
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This is the Eaton Fire,
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Pasadena, maybe the most recognizable place nearby.
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That's just down the road from here.
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This was a home.
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We see it looks like a gas fueled,
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the natural gas line still burning a little bit here and we see that a lot.
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There aren't many structures left on this block.
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In fact, in this neighborhood,
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there aren't many homes that look to be intact and untouched.
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Water dropping helicopters and aircraft are in the air.
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Right now they are trying to tackle the Eaton Fire.
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It's more than 10,000 acres, 0% containment.
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Much of it does appear to be burning in forest land that's away from homes.
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But if that wind picks up and the wind that we saw yesterday that was hitting 70,
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80-mile-an-hour wind gusts, hurricane force winds,
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if that picks up again,
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which it may happen tonight,
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There's a lot of concern about blowing embers,
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these little basically balls of fire.
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They were blowing them one,
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two, three miles from the fire line earlier this week.
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There's worry about that.
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All of Southern California really holding their breath,
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given the number of fires that are burning.
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The winds are in the forecast for at least another night.
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That's a major point of concern.
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You know, when you look around here,
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you see just snippets of what were homes.
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Chimneys are standing.
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We got one wall that's still intact over here,
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like appliances that burned, the remnants of that.
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But anything that those things that we those memories,
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those things that we all care so much about,
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photos, memories, they're just gone.
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And it's it's this house.
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It's that house.
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It's almost every other house on the block here.
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You drive by burnt out cars.
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You know, yesterday we were coming up here.
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yesterday when we were coming up here we drove down a street
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and it was either every house was either on fire or had already burned to the ground.
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Chris take care thank you for joining us live from LA
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and
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if you want to keep following this story there'll be a
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special program on the LA fires at seven o'clock this evening you can find
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that on the BBC News Channel and on the BBC iPlayer.

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  • wildfire - Waldbrand
  • evacuate - evakuieren
  • intense flames - intensive Flammen
  • uncontained - unkontrollierbar
  • devastation - Verwüstung
  • high winds - starke Winde
  • iconic landmarks - ikonische Wahrzeichen
  • dry conditions - trockene Bedingungen

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