A huge fire has destroyed homes, burnt cars and let to the evacuation of 30,000 people in southern California.
A fast-moving wildfire broke out on Tuesday (January 7) in foothills northeast of Los Angeles hours after another blaze tore through the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood on the coast.
The fire in Eaton, Altadena, started near a nature preserve just before 6.30pm local time with flames spreading so rapidly that staff at a care home had to push dozens of residents in wheelchairs and hospital beds down the street to a parking lot where they waited in their bedclothes for ambulances and other vehicles to take them to safety.
Another blaze to the west in Pacific Palisades started on Tuesday morning and burned out of control into the night.
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