At least 10 people have now been killed and thousands of homes destroyed by the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area, LA County officials have confirmed.
The vicious winds which whipped the flames into LA and caused chaos as hundreds of thousands of Angelenos evacuated have begun to weaken.
However, forecasters say the high-fire weather risk will continue into Friday.
Multiple blazes erupted around the City of Angels, causing damage and losses some estimates indicate could be as high as $150 billion.
Some 180,000 people are still subject to mandatory evacuation orders and firefighters continue their battles to bring the infernos under control.
The most recent blaze to ignite was the Kenneth Fire, which started late Thursday afternoon in the San Fernando Valley, just 2 miles from a school acting as a shelter for evacuees from another fire….