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Scammers and looters have been taking advantage of the wildfires in Los Angeles,
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Scammers and looters have been taking advantage of the wildfires in Los Angeles,
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according to police, with one man dressing as a firefighter to try to burgle a home.
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16 people have died in the fires and 16 are missing.
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More strong winds are forecast,
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but firefighters say they are making progress.
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One of the four fires burning through Los Angeles,
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the Kenneth Fire, is now 100% contained,
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meaning they've stopped it spreading.
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Firefighters are trying to prevent the sort of devastation seen in the Palisades village.
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This video shows the before and after in the upscale shopping area.
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On the left is what it looked like in March last year and on the right is how it looks now.
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Well, let's join Emma Vardy,
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who's in Los Angeles for us.
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Emma.
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Well, among all that devastation here,
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as well as people's homes,
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are a number of schools and churches also now lying in rubble.
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And today, on a Sunday,
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congregations have been finding new places to come together.
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Meanwhile, of course, that monumental firefighting effort is now being helped by new crews coming in from Mexico and from Canada
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as LA tries to sustain its resistance against the flames as this crisis continues.
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The race to stay ahead of the deadly fires enters a sixth day.
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Helicopters fly just above the smoke, below the flames rage.
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But just as progress is made, other areas ignite.
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In the fire's wake, residents continue to journey back to where their houses once stood.
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For one, the reality is overwhelming.
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Oh my God!
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Oh my God!
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There have been repeated warnings for people to stick to nighttime curfews.
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Police urging the need for order.
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I saw a gentleman that looked like a firefighter and I asked him if he was okay because he was sitting down.
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I didn't realize we had him in handcuffs.
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We were turning him over to LAPD because he was dressed like a fireman and he was not.
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He just got caught burglarizing a home.
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That was my house.
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This is the main house.
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With tens of thousands of people staying in emergency hotels and shelters,
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they're safe for now but have no idea where they will go next.
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Serenity's family of 11 fled minutes before their home burned.
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People like me without insurance,
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we don't know what we're going to do.
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We're at shelters like this,
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we are going all around town.
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Some of us have lost our cars,
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some of us have lost our sense of being.
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The city faces a massive task to provide housing for the areas that are lost.
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We will rise, we will rise, we will rise.
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It's a church in Pasadena,
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Sunday's congregation, summoning the strength to face the day.
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The community is pulling together to weather this disaster,
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but there are fears over how some are being affected.
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You know, people can take the land and they can buy the land,
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so we want to make sure they remain the landowners and they continue to retain their property.
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My concern is mainly for the underserved and the at-risk,
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which are the elderly and then also the children.
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The scale of the destruction in neighborhoods is vast.
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Whole schools gone.
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As you know, our beloved South Campus has been severely damaged by the recent fires.
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And many of our families and staff have experienced great personal loss.
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Crews have slowed the spread of the Eton fire,
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but strong winds drive it back into life.
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Well, you can see here that it's burning on both sides of us,
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up the hill and down into the valley too.
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There's helicopters flying just above us,
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just dropping water now, trying to keep those flames at bay.
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and there's a renewed sense of urgency because down here is a large NASA facility that the flames have been moving towards.
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16 people have now died in these fires.
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They are already among the deadliest in California's history.
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And officials say the death toll will rise.
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Emma Vardy, BBC News, Los Angeles.
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Well, despite the major ongoing challenges,
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firefighters have told the BBC that they are cautiously optimistic that they're beginning to gain the upper hand.
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The crucial difference, they say,
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has been the ability to bring in aircraft as the wind speeds dropped.
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Over the past week, our correspondent John Sudworth has spent days and nights watching the work of the fire crews up close,
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and he sent this report.
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In this unprecedented disaster, fire crews have faced an unprecedented fight.
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An overwhelming wildfire ripping through one of America's most densely populated cities,
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fueled by hurricane force winds.
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Let us know for you in your way too, OK?
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All right.
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Cool.
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Thanks, guys.
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But battalion chief Brent Basqua now believes their fortunes are shifting for one main reason.
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We're cautiously optimistic because it's not going to be 70 mile an hour winds.
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The rug got swept out under us from the winds downing our aircraft.
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They're just, we can't use them.
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It's too unsafe for the pilots
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and the retardant doesn't even make it to the ground when it's over 50 miles an hour.
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So we had to ground our aircraft.
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The helicopters did what they could,
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but it still just shows you how important it is to have
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that coordinated effect with the firefighters on the ground and the ones in the sky.
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Now, as those wind speeds have dropped,
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the aircraft have been able to get off the ground,
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bombarding the fire with water and fire retardant.
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For the past two days they've been flying sortie after sortie,
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right around the clock.
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In coordination with the ground teams,
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the hills around this city have been turned into into a smouldering moonscape
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as they begin to get on top of the fight.
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On Wednesday night we saw for ourselves how firefighters,
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without the air support, were left helpless.
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Facing water shortages as pressure dropped,
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this crew was forced to watch these homes burn while trying desperately to save the other side of the street.
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Two days on and the fires here have finally burned themselves out.
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As expected, every single property here now a gutted shell.
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This is where the fire truck was that night and the extraordinary thing is,
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against the odds, they won the battle they were fighting.
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Their careful use of the small amounts of water they had,
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saving every property on this side of the street.
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Many thousands were not so lucky,
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left facing a crisis on unimaginable scale.
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But in the fight against the fire at least,
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they're now daring to hope the worst may be over.
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This is still no time for complacency.
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Everybody is certain of that.
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There are still some 4,000 firefighters on this one fire alone,
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the fire they are calling the Palisades fire.
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There are more than 100,000 people across this city of Los Angeles under evacuation orders.
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And everybody is keeping a careful eye on those forecasts for strengthening winds later into the week.
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But here is the crucial difference, Rita.
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Those forecasts from late Monday through to Wednesday suggest we will
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see wind speeds with gusts of around 50 to 55 miles an hour.
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That is a long way short of the 100 mile an hour gusts we were getting on Monday and Tuesday.
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It's within the normal range of the Santa Ana winds.
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The kind of things these crews here say they are well used to dealing with,
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and it should also mean absolutely crucially,
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they can keep those aircraft that you can hear going overhead up in the skies,
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getting above the fire.
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So, you know, growing confidence,
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not complacency, but growing confidence that they are still retaining the upper hand.
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