If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the images coming out of Southern California were from a movie straight out of the pages of a Hollywood script. But this is all too real for the residents in the Southland,

Before and after photos of the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area have sent tens of thousands scrambling for safety and decimated neighborhoods.

Strong winds that sent wildfires ripping through the mountains and foothills around Los Angeles on Tuesday fed a spectacle of smoke, flames and flight. Vivid orange flames lit the sky in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood,