Here is the view from live cameras in the Los Angeles area, from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to the Hollywood Hills, showing wildfires scorching acre after acre.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Santa Ana wind-fueled Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had scorched more than 11,000 acres and destroyed an estimated 1,000 structures, many of them homes, officials said.

The confirmed death toll from three days of raging wildfires rose to 10 people late Thursday as firefighters struggled to contain blazes that have destroyed swaths of America’s most populated county.At least five infernos were burning simultaneously around Los Angeles,

Ferocious winds that drove the flames and led to chaotic evacuations have calmed somewhat and were not expected to be as powerful during the day. That could provide an opportunity for firefighters to make progress reining in blazes that have hopscotched across the sprawling region,

Firefighters and emergency personnel spent a second exhausting night battling flames and evacuating residents as the fires raged almost unchecked.