Los Angeles Wildfires: Rs. 288 Crore Luxury Mansion Engulfed in Fire

by Editorial

The blazing, $35 million (about Rs. 288 crore) luxury mansion of a home owner on popular US-based realty website Zillow has come in a viral video amidst Los Angeles wildfires that wreak havoc with complete destruction in all directions.

Filmed from far off, the colossal structure was swallowed in walls of flame-a terrible witness to the wildfires raging over its region for many days now.

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Most parts of Los Angeles have been burned down: the areas affected include Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, Altadena, and Hollywood Hills. This is because these fires have been escalated by the terrific and dry Santa Ana winds that lost at least five lives and evacuated more than 100,000 people from their homes.

The fires have incinerated at least 1,500 structures and torched 42 square miles (108 square kilometers)—an area about the same size as the city of San Francisco. Of the properties affected are several homes of celebrities along Pacific Palisades and in the Hollywood Hills.

Southern California has been in a long dry spell with very little rainfall since early May. This has allowed the wildfires to spread quickly, and the strong winds have not helped matters by fueling the inferno that is proving to be difficult for firefighters to control.

The sheer scale of devastation, quite an overwhelming feature in the devastated landscapes, as the fires enter their fourth day. Some parts of neighborhoods seem to have been “bombed,” other sections reduced to mere street outlines, and others more resembling a “patchwork” of the remaining homes, dispersed among burnt areas.

It was an heart-wrenching scene as evacuated residents returned to see that their homes had been destroyed by the fire. Scorched timbers were strewn across where houses once stood, and a ruined outdoor barbecue pit sat alongside a swimming pool, which was stained black by soot. In one heart-wrenching shot, a married couple viewed the smoldering remains of their house, while another person shielded his face with an arm standing next to a house reduced to a “bombed” shell.

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