Kecemasan Warga Los Angeles Melihat Wilayahnya Hangus Terbakar

Kebakaran hutan yang dahsyat di California selatan telah membuat warga Los Angeles putus asa karena api terus menghancurkan rumah dan bisnis mereka.

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00:00A break from destructive winds allowed firefighting planes to take off once again, as residents

00:09of the Palisades in the Los Angeles area wait anxiously to get back into their neighborhood

00:14to see what's left of their homes.

00:17Ram Miller lost his family home of 25 years.

00:21Certainly, we weren't prepared for something of this magnitude, and I think that they were

00:27so overwhelmed with the fires, so concentrated and so large in that area.

00:34With the high wind that we had, there was no possible way to fight it.

00:39The Palisades fire is the first and biggest of multiple fires that have been raging around

00:44Los Angeles for two days.

00:46It's still coming out of the debris.

00:49I am completely surrounded by homes that have been burnt down.

00:54Here, take a look on the others that have been almost meltdown.

00:58Now, it looks like a war zone with all the cars burned.

01:02Carol Darza owned a therapy center here, which she's now struggling to recognize.

01:08Oh, my God, I cannot.

01:10Wow.

01:11There's nothing left in here.

01:14Wow.

01:16Wow.

01:18This is the area where I went every day, 12 years.

01:24How could that be?

01:26Now, it really feels like a movie.

01:28It's so weird.

01:30It's a painful walk for Darza, realizing that most of her neighborhood is gone.

01:36Right there.

01:38Every year, there's an Indian restaurant there.

01:40Every year, we celebrate our Christmas holiday, and this was my 12th year.

01:45Several of her clients and friends have also lost their homes.

01:49As a trauma therapist herself, she says it will take a long time for her community.

01:54It's one of those things that there's not so much one can do.

01:57It's just really a grieving process.

01:59You have to allow the grieving.

02:02You can't bypass emotions.

02:04You have to first feel the grief and the loss and the sadness.

02:07Here, we're seeing some people with suitcases.

02:09Nearly 180,000 people have come under evacuation orders

02:14as windy conditions continue to fuel the most destructive fire in the city's history.

02:20It is Tian Shan, CGTN, Los Angeles.