Los Angeles plunged into its worst natural disaster in decades as wildfires driven by hurricane-strength wind gusts tore through prosperous neighborhoods, killed at least five people and forced more than 100,000 residents to flee.
At least five massive blazesburned across the region early Thursday, with the two largest — in the coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades and the other bearing down on Pasadena — still uncontained after expanding rapidly in the last 24 hours alone.
WATCH: A new wildfire flared and slowly expanded in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday evening. Source: Associated Press
The Pentagon is ready to provide aircraft to help extinguish the flames from the sky, US Defense Secretary
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