Nearly 100,000 people and businesses remained without power Thursday as wildfires continue to rage across Southern California. As of about 5:30 a.m. local time, just over 91,000 outages had been reported,

Crews battling multiple wildfires that raged across Los Angeles on Wednesday were up against a near-perfect storm: intense wind, low humidity and, most troubling for residents, inadequate supplies of water to contain the blazes.

Firefighters are battling to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes.