Los Angeles resident Roxanne Hoge says many of her friends have been left shell-shocked as fires tear through parts of the city, claiming at least five lives and burning homes to the ground.

LOS ANGELES - Before one of the most destructive fires in California history swept through, the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood on Los Angeles' west side was filled with expensive homes fronted by ...

And many of them will be doing it under threat of family separation.

Global warming changed the behavior of the jet stream, and a new pattern is now clear: sapping moisture from the West Coast and freezing the East.

In a westward expansion, FreezPak Logistics is taking up residence in its first West Coast facility: a new cold storage facility in the Los Angeles area, that is 150,000 square feet of both freezer and refrigerated pallet positions.

The fires killed five people, put 130,000 people under evacuation orders and ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Pasadena.

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