More than 30,000 people evacuated their homes as a wildfire ripped through an upscale coastal area of Los Angeles overnight, with Hollywood celebrities among those fleeing by car and on foot as flames engulfed homes and set hillsides ablaze.
Weather conditions were expected to deteriorate further throughout Wednesday as a wind storm and arid conditions fanned a blaze in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood and at least two others in the Los Angeles area, forecasters said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Tuesday.
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