One resident who escaped likened the situation to a scene from a disaster movie. The word "apocalyptic ... But never in the 25 years that I have lived here in LA have I witnessed a situation ...

The earth is being ripped apart at the seams and beneath LA, pressure is building. After a mass evacuation, Calvin Crawford is one of few left, desperately searching for his fiancée, Ashley Pace ...

"Raging Bull is a film of equal ambition and scope to Apocalypse Now, but being a Scorsese movie is a much more rigorously ... Niro's performance as boxer Jake La Motta." Experts included ...

The BBC's David Willis photographed smoke from the wildfires above Hollywood Boulevard - one of the most famous streets in Los Angeles [BBC/David Willis] ...