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We're starting in the United States,
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where at least 10 people have been killed in the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles,
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that death toll having been revised upwards just over an hour ago.
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Around 180,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes.
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Many neighbourhoods have been left unrecognisable.
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Residents have described the firestorm as apocalyptic.
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Officials say that thousands of homes and other structures have been damaged or destroyed.
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AccuWeather estimates the damage is expected to be worth at least $135 billion.
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It could go as high as $150 billion.
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And the National Guard has been deployed amid reports of looting.
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The biggest fires have been burning into a third night.
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Fierce winds have eased, giving firefighters some respite.
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Police say they believe one of the blazes in the west of the city We started deliberately.
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They're treating it as a crime scene.
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A suspect is in custody and will be questioned.
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Our North America correspondent, David Willis.
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Forgive me, we're going to go across live now or hear the latest from our correspondent, Helena Humphrey.
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I watched this house burn down live on the news.
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Yeah, this was a beautiful home.
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Had a lot of good times here.
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It's hard to put into words the level of devastation here.
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But the L.A.
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County Sheriff put it bluntly.
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In some areas, he said,
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it looks like a bomb had been dropped.
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So far, land more than twice the size of Manhattan lies in ruins.
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And still, these fires rage out of control.
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There is a new fire,
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unfortunately, in West Hills, pushing into Ventura County.
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and we are expecting this fire to rapidly spread due to high winds.
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This is a reminder that this is a very dynamic situation that can change quickly.
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On Thursday, a brief lull in those fierce Santa Ana winds allowed aircraft to streak across the skies,
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dropping water and fire retardant onto the flames.
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But there's no guarantee that that calm will last,
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with forecasters warning more winds could fan these infernos even further.
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The wind definitely played the biggest part,
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especially with the flying ambers.
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I mean, when we're seeing ambers,
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it's shooting over my head like,
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oh my gosh, that's somebody's house,
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that's someone's property, just balls of fire.
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Some residents have ventured back,
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bracing themselves for what they'd find,
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only to discover their homes reduced to little more than ash.
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Many told us they're simply too devastated to speak on camera.
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These fires don't discriminate, tearing through every kind of neighbourhood,
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from lavish mansions to humble bungalows.
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All of them wants a place of safety for someone.
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This looks like the apocalypse.
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It just doesn't feel like the normal things that happen in your life.
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This is something very unusual.
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And for others, the scope of this catastrophe confirms their growing fears about the changing climate.
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This is obvious that stuff like this is happening
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because of global warming and people
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that just want to deny it just don't know science and don't know how to research those things.
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So I think that humans are funny because they think anywhere they move in this world they'll be safe,
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but the entire world has global warming.
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I guess pick your disaster and live there.
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What disaster makes a human feel most comfortable?
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Because that's the world we're living in at this point.
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Here in Altadena, fire crews are out battling these hot spots.
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You can see that many homes like this one are still smouldering.
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And you can see here that this entire neighbourhood,
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this entire community has essentially been wiped out.
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We've been speaking to families here who have lived in these homes for generations
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and in just a matter of hours they've lost everything.
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And in some of the hardest hit areas a night time
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curfew is in place as some try to profit from the chaos.
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Looting has already led to multiple arrests.
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Meanwhile President Biden has pledged his support for all those affected.
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To the families who have been impacted by this disaster,
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you're living through a nightmare, I know.
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And I promise you, we're going to help you get through this and eventually recover and rebuild.
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But rebuilding is hard to imagine right now,
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when all these residents can do is wait,
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hoping and praying that the next gust of wind won't stoke the embers back into an inferno.
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Helena Humphrey, BBC News, Los Angeles.
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I spoke to our North America correspondent David Willis a short
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time ago who brought us up to date on what's happening where he is in Altadena.
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There is an eerie silence at this,
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the site of the Pasadena, Altadena fire.
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Behind me is all that remains of what was once a wood-framed family home.
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You can see, really, it is just the staircase leading to what was the upper floor.
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Over there is a family car that is completely burnt out
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and there is not a property on this street that has not been either completely destroyed or very badly damaged.
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Now earlier today another fire broke out,
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a very fast moving fire to the west of us here.
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That was very swiftly brought under control though after it spread
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to encompass about a thousand acres of land after firefighters used the dropping of water from helicopters and planes overhead.
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Now, police here are investigating the cause of that particular fire
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and they are questioning a man on suspicion of possibly committing arson.
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Now, the biggest blaze of all is,
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of course, the Pacific Palisades fire.
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That grew to about 17,000 acres or so.
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The good news there is that there is,
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I hear, some containment that's taken place.
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About 6% of that massive fire that,
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of course, destroyed hundreds of multimillion-dollar properties a few nights ago has now been contained.
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But there is a lot of work still to do there.
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And officials have been pinning their hopes on the fact
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that the winds were due to stay fairly calm for the next few hours before potentially whipping up again over the weekend,
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which could, of course, make their job all the more difficult.
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The disaster management efforts, these fires are burning into a third night.
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We've been hearing some firefighters have been struggling to get access even to water.
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How has that operation been ramped up?
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Well, it's going to ramp up considerably in the next few days.
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Indeed, it has over the last few hours and my colleague Ben is behind the camera at the moment,
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came here, traveled here from Nevada.
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He saw a convoy of fire trucks coming in from the state of Nevada,
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as indeed they are being drafted in from states all around here,
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Oregon, Arizona, Washington state, and so on.
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We're talking about mechanisms as well as machinery and mechanisms as well as manpower.
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400 additional firefighters have been brought in over the last few hours
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and the federal agencies and the White House are saying
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that whatever is needed here will be provided in order to get these sort of communities back on their feet.
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