Many animals have been left behind in California as wildfires rage in the Los Angeles area. However, a group of Arizona volunteers are doing what they can to help.
Firefighting crews from Northern California and Arizona have been deployed to assist with the trio of devastating wildfires currently raging in Southern California.
More than 150,000 people are under evacuation orders in Los Angeles County due to deadly wildfires burning out of control.
Both the Phoenix Fire Department and the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management are deploying personnel and sending equipment.
Fires began Tuesday afternoon as high-speed winds, known as the Santa Ana winds, quickly spread flames from a small fire into Pacific Palisades.
In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy. However, the Los Angeles fires demonstrate a new reality: Wildfires in the state are growing larger and more ferocious and burning into suburbs and cities more often, experts told USA TODAY.
Arizona resources has been sent out to assist as multiple wildfires burn through heavily populated areas of southern California.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said that her country was sending support in part because many Mexican people live in the Los Angeles area.
Here is the view from live cameras in the Los Angeles area, from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to the Hollywood Hills, showing wildfires scorching acre after acre.
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