A day of small victories by firefighters against raging Los Angeles wildfires threatened to be reversed as winds that have spread multiple blazes across the region picked up again late on Thursday, threatening several densely populated neighbourhoods.
The Santa Ana winds that have spread embers across the region abated on Thursday morning, allowing authorities to beat back a new fire in the Hollywood Hills that forced evacuations near some of show business’s most iconic locales, such as the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But gusts picked up again later in the day, making it difficult to clamp down on the biggest wildfires that remain in the Pacific Palisades, farther to the west of downtown LA, and near Pasadena to the north.