The iconic landscape of Los Angeles County and its surrounding region have been forever transformed by a massive, multi-front firestorm that has leveled an area more than twice the size of

The wildfires in Southern California have led to the evacuations of over 130,000 people and have destroyed over 10,000 structures. Overlaying the wildfire outbreak across other major U.S. cities shows that the blaze is one of the worst in United States history, as it continues to spread across residential areas in Los Angeles.

Officials advised the public to stay away from the ocean amid warnings of the strongest windstorm to hit SoCal in more than a decade.

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

People in areas under mandatory evacuation orders face an "immediate threat to life" and must leave immediately.

Over one week, at least 10 fires in the Los Angeles region have burned a total area nearly three times the size of Manhattan.

Residents of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Los Angeles, California, are now taking stock of widespread devastation as a wind-driven wildfire continues to burn through the community.

The damage the Southern California wildfires have inflicted in the Los Angeles area so far is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.

Police say that they were dispatched to the waterline at the 3500 block of the strand just after 7 p.m. after receiving reports that the man's body had washed ashore.