Chaos in California: Wildfires claim 5 lives, thousands left powerless as celeb residences burn

World News: Wildfires were raging in Los Angeles, killing people, sending thousands into evacuation shelters, and leaving huge chunks of destruction

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World News: On Wednesday, wildfires continued raging at a disastrous rate in the Los Angeles area. In the Pacific Palisades and Sylmar, residents fled for their lives as huge flames and hot winds devoured their homes. Conditions of life were drastically threatening hundreds of families who ran out of their homes and raced through the smoke cloud to save themselves from wildfires

Death toll: Five confirmed killed

Five were confirmed dead, and several more were injured seriously by the unchecked raging inferno. The battle against the raging inferno left the intensity of the fires uncontrollable and, on top of this, overwhelmed emergency crews. The death toll in such a devastating natural disaster stands to be one among the tragic for thousands, where the shelterless stand in the face of such fury unleashed by nature

Thousands of people evacuated, houses to rubble

The series of fires that began breaking out all over Los Angeles has already reduced more than 1,000 structures to rubble. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes, which have already become rubble. The extent of destruction is too shocking as authorities are still making assessments of what has been left behind by the unrelenting fires

Power outages affect 120,000 customers

Southern California Edison shut power to close to 120,000 customers in six counties as the deteriorating wildfire conditions got worse. Outages were blamed on high winds and safety; with another 440,000 customers also under threat, one would be quite curious to find out what would be the kind of weather that might force them into similar shutdowns

Desperate attempts to tame blaze

It is during such situations that the people of Los Angeles are witnessing day and night fires and threatening high winds but dry conditions not only hard to bear but leaving all here restless about their future also now as the wildfire tragedies have unfolded themselves in front of them very gradually