Fiery LA's orange skies 'like being on Mars'

A man who said his house was inches from being burnt down in Los Angeles wildfires has described waking up in the city to see orange skies and soot everywhere - a scene "like being on Mars".

Danny Meigh, originally from Worcester, has fled LA with his partner and is now in another Californian city, San Diego, about 111 miles (179 km) away.

His vulnerable property, in Altadena, one of the worst-hit areas of LA, was being let out to tenants when wildfires swept into residential areas. The occupants evacuated on Tuesday.

Mr Meigh described the situation as "pretty rough", adding: "I knew we were going to get some pretty heavy winds - heavy weather - but I didn't know it was going to result in this."

He and his partner, who have a one-year-old son, had been renting an apartment in Highland Park, in north east LA, about eight miles (12.8km) from Altadena.

"We woke up on Wednesday morning to orange skies. It was like being on Mars or something. It was pretty insane," he said.

The couple were unable to find out what was happening at the Altadena house until a friend went over on his bike.

"He rode up to our house to find that our house was intact," Mr Meigh said.

But from video shot of the street, he could not believe the wider scene.

"Our next-door neighbour's house was completely gone and [my friend] panned around to the other side of the street, and three houses... were completely gone," Mr Meigh told the BBC.

"It's madness. Ours is the only one standing."

Mr Meigh said people in the city were rallying round, offering each other help and support.

He said people from Worcester were also contacting him to check how they were.

In the US, "everyone's standing together, and we've got a few text groups going and people are just sharing what they're going through", he said.

"I think that's the only thing you can do in this kind of situation."

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