Firefighters are running out of water to tackle the three blazes ripping through Southern California as experts warn the worst is “yet to come”.
A fire tore through the affluent coastal neighbourhood of Pacific Palisades, home to celebrities including Ben Affleck, Tom Hanks, Reese Witherspoon and Steven Spielberg.
Hours later, a second blaze broke out in the inland foothills of north-east Los Angeles, with a third beginning in the Sylmar suburbs, LA’s northernmost neighbourhood.
Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, warned that the blaze is “just getting started and will get significantly worse before it gets better”, adding that the strongest and most widespread winds are “yet to come”.
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