Altadena, United States, Jan 9, 2025 (AFP) - 'We have lost everything': Despair in the Los Angeles fires

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2025-01-09

Homes reduced to ashes, businesses in flames, and in the midst of the devastation, haggard residents: the California city of Altadena, ravaged Wednesday by a violent fire, looked like an area that has just been bombed. "This was our home," William Gonzales told AFP, pointing to smouldering ruins where only embers and a chimney remain. "We have lost practically everything," he sighed. "The flames have consumed all our dreams." Swathes of the Los......

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