Firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire as it burns through Malibu, California.
Embers fall from burning palms, and the sun is obscured by smoke as flames close in on a house trapped in the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, California.
Mayor of Malibu and firefighter Rick Mullen surveys a burning house caught in the Woolsey Fire.
Chimneys were all that remained of the residences gutted by fire in Paradise, California. The bodies of five people were found in a car on Friday as authorities assessed the damage wrought by the Camp wildfire in this forested retirement community of some 27,000; one state official described the town as 'razed'.
A burned pick-up truck rests on Pearson Road in Paradise, California. Not much is left in Paradise after a ferocious wildfire roared through the northern California town.
A wildfire burns trees in Paradise, California. Drought conditions have made California more likely to see wildfires.
Hospital workers and first responders evacuate patients from the Feather River Hospital as the Camp Fire moves through Paradise, California. At the time, none of the fire was contained.
The Woolsey Fire burns in Malibu, California.
The interior of a building burns as the Camp Fire moves through Paradise, California.
Firefighters work to control a house fire caught in the Woolsey Fire in West Hills, California.
Horses are tied to a pole on the beach in Malibu as the Woolsey Fire comes down the hill.
A woman takes in the Woolsey Fire burning in Malibu, California. The fire destroyed dozens of structures, forced thousands of evacuations, and closed a major freeway.
A firefighter sprays down palm trees scorched by the Woolsey Fire burns in Malibu.
Search and rescue teams scramble to evacuate patients as the Feather River Hospital burns during the Camp fire in Paradise, California.
Los Angeles County firefighters look on as the out-of-control Woolsey Fire explodes behind a house in the West Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.
Exhausted firefighters rest on Glenbridge Road in Westlake Village after fighting the Woolsey Fire.
A helicopter flies above the roiling smoke from the Woolsey Fire near Thousand Oaks, California. Firefighters in opposite ends of California fought back fast-moving blazes as wildfires raged out of control near major cities, forced hundreds of thousands of residents to flee their homes, and damaged hundreds of buildings.
