According to the Associated Press, nearly 500 buildings are lost and hundreds of thousands are still evacuated as a result several major fires.
The powerful winds Friday left firefighters nearly powerless to fight the fires.
"The crews were trying to stay out ahead of this as quickly as they could," said Capt. Kendal Bortisser of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. "As we know, when a tornado hits the Midwest, there's no stopping it. When a hurricane hits the East Coast, there's no stopping it. When Santa Ana winds come in, there's no stopping them."
Officials allowed some residents to return home Friday and survey the damage in a San Diego County community where the so-called Lilac Fire forced 10,000 to flee. The fire has burned 105 structures and torched more than 6 square miles of land, according to CalFire. It wasn't immediately clear how many of those structures were homes, the report added.
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