On the ground in Los Angeles, residents in the fire-hit neighbourhoods can’t see the sheer scale of the devastation.

Entire swathes of the city are too dangerous to access and the thickness of smoke makes it hard to see far.

But from space the enormity of the destruction is made clear.

Satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies has shared pictures taken from space that show just how bad the wildfires have been.

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