Wildfires ravage Southern California, forcing thousands to evacuate

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00:00Historic wildfires are still burning out of control and they're gutting entire

00:05neighborhoods across Southern California. The hills of Los Angeles are

00:12on fire. Crews here continue to battle several major wildfires that have left

00:17multiple people dead and forced thousands of others from their homes.

00:22Five, six, eight, ten houses in our neighborhood just gone like that. Wednesday night

00:28flames erupted in the Hollywood Hills, threatening one of the city's most

00:32popular tourist spots. Some folks stayed behind, racing to save their homes.

00:38There was a tree that caught on fire just over here and we had to we had to come

00:43together as a community and just get our garden hoses together and just like put

00:46it out. The conditions have stretched firefighting resources and water

00:51supplies to the limit. In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, water systems

00:56faced four times more than normal demand, prompting officials to send

01:01several mobile water tankers to the area. Why are those poor firefighters not

01:06given the tools to fight the fires for us? Strong winds that fueled these fires

01:10eased late Wednesday, allowing firefighting aircraft to battle the

01:14conditions from above, but Los Angeles officials say the danger is far from

01:19over. If you receive an evacuation order, please leave immediately. If you receive

01:25a warning, get ready, protect yourself and protect each other. There's still a

01:30red flag warning for extreme fire danger, with high winds expected to

01:35continue to the rest of this week. In Los Angeles County, Connor Hanson, Fox

01:41News.