Aerial firefighters descend on Los Angeles amid ‘extremely challenging’ conditions

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Source: National Interagency Fire Center

Aerial firefighting companies have rushed aircraft to Southern California to battle a wind-whipped inferno that has burned neighborhoods to the ground and that by some estimates could be the USA’s costliest blaze.

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