California Wildfires: Shocking Satellite Images Show Scope Of Wreckage

As harrowing images from the ground in Southern California capture the aftermath of multiple fast-moving wildfires there, satellite views provide a shocking picture of the devastation from above.

Maxar Technologies, a space technology company based in Colorado, has been sharing before-and-after images of areas hit in Los Angeles County. The comparisons are shocking and sobering: Flames engulfs entire neighborhoods, leaving behind charred remains of homes, businesses and schools.

Major wind gusts still posed a threat on Thursday morning as authorities continued to fight blazes including the Palisades fire west of Los Angeles, the Eaton fire north of Pasadena and the Sunset fire in the Hollywood Hills.

The fires have killed at least five people, burned through thousands of acres and destroyed thousands of structures, including historic landmarks such as the Topanga Ranch Motel, a bungalow home built by news publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1929. Almost 180,000 people in the county have been ordered to evacuate, with roughly 200,000 under evacuation warnings, Robert Luna, the Los Angeles County sheriff, said.

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