Since Tuesday, multiple wildfires in Southern California have burned through at least 39,000 acres — an area nearly the size of Brooklyn — and firefighters have barely made a dent.

Photos taken of the Hughes Fire around Castaic Lake, California captured the massive blaze and cloud of smoke visible from ...

sending clouds of smoke into the air and forcing 30,000 residents to evacuate. Roads leading away from the coastal community were gridlocked, and some people, desperate to escape, left their cars and ...