The scale of the destruction is hard to comprehend: The fires have consumed more the 60 square miles, according to state fire officials, and killed at least 24 people even as the search for additional victims remains ongoing.

Fires tearing through the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people, displaced thousands of others and destroyed more than 12,000 structures.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s

Gabriela is among thousands of students whose schooling was turned upside down by wildfires that ravaged the city, destroying several schools and leaving many others in off-limits evacuation zones.