Los Angeles residents continue to flee fires as stronger winds forecast

Residents of Los Angeles have fled wildfires engulfing the suburbs of the west coast megalopolis, as firefighters struggled to contain the flames overnight amid fears they would worsen on Wednesday morning. California officials ordered more than 30,000 people to evacuate their homes as hillside infernos ripped through the coastal Pacific Palisades neighbourhood. People escaped by car and on foot. Two inland fires in the LA vicinity were also spreading fast: one in Altadena, near Pasadena, and one in Sylmar, in the San Fernando Valley, north-west of LA. Further east, a new fire, named the Tyler fire, began overnight. All four

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