The Hong Kong Telegraph - Boulevard (English)

Hollywood ablaze as fires rage around Los Angeles

At least five people have been killed in wildfires rampaging around Los Angeles, officials said Wednesday, with firefighters overwhelmed by the speed and ferocity of multiple blazes -- including in Hollywood.

'We have lost everything': Despair in the Los Angeles fires

Homes reduced to ashes, businesses in flames, and in the midst of the devastation, haggard residents: the California city of Altadena, ravaged Wednesday by a violent fire, looked like an area that has just been bombed.