Trauma and tragedy in the City of Angels: covering the LA fires
The United States's second-largest city has never faced a blaze of this scale, driven by an extreme autumn drought and fierce Santa Ana winds -- the strongest since 2011 -- that have turned dry hills into kindling, fuelling a relentless inferno that has raged for more than a week. While the appalling destruction in Pacific Palisades and Malibu in the west -- long the home of the rich and famous -- has made most of the headlines, Altadena in the east has suffered even more. Though a lot less glamorous... Читать дальше...