The wind whips embers while a firefighter battles the fire in the Angeles National Forest near Mt. Wilson as the wildfires burn in the Los Angeles area, during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California,

Satellite and aerial images captured the extent of the damage wrought by the wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is in the grip of unprecedented wildfires that are destroying homes and ending lives. A fire that started in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday morning quickly blazed out of control,