A mandatory evacuation order has been issued for the Hollywood Hills as a massive wildfire sweeps through Los Angeles. The massive fire has claimed 5 lives, destroying thousands of buildings.

At least six separate wildfires were burning in Los Angeles County. Three of them were listed as “0 per cent controlled”, including a pair of huge conflagrations on the city’s eastern and western flanks and the smaller Sunset fire raging in Hollywood Hills just above Hollywood Boulevard and its Walk of Fame.