If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the images coming out of Southern California were from a movie straight out of the pages of a Hollywood script. But this is all too real for the residents in the Southland,

A photo gallery showing the devastation caused by the Pacific Palisades wildfire that has wreaked havoc across Los Angeles.

Photos show homes and infrastructure in the affluent Californian neighborhood of Pacific Palisades have been destroyed as wildfires rage through Los Angeles' suburbs. The Palisades Fire, which erupted on Tuesday,

Fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds, a multi-thousand acre fire caused evacuation orders of over 70,000 residents in the Pacific Palisades area of California, west of Los Angeles, on Wednesday,