Southern California this week gave the impression of scenes from a catastrophe movie.
Flames from the Thomas Fire, spread by means of powerful Santa Ana winds, surrounded the mountain metropolis of Ojai, a traveler mecca with a population of 7,500. The nearby hospital changed into pressured to evacuate nearly 50 humans in the nighttime. They joined extra than two hundred,000 residents across the Southland who've been informed to go away their homes.
Drivers going thru the Supelveda Pass on the 405 throughway, within the coronary heart of Los Angeles, watched in disbelief because the hills simply off the aspect of the road burned vivid purple.