Apocalyptic scenes have emerged across Los Angeles County, where deadly wildfires have caused catastrophic damage and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Whole neighborhoods have been devastated. The Eaton and Palisades fires are now the two most destructive wildfires in Southern California history.
Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Sheila Kelliher said earlier this month that the terrain and wind combined created a “massive fight.”
“It’s the perfect storm, as they say — the low relative humidity, the high gusty winds, the low fuel moisture, the lack of rain and the excessive fuel growth that we’ve had over the last three years really have set this up for this once-in-a-decade wind event,” she told CNN’s Laura Coates.
