When the Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles, Hollywood’s awards season was in full swing. The Golden Globes had transpired less than 48 hours earlier and a series of splashy awards banquets followed in the days after.

Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force on Wednesday after setting off a desperate escape from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. Flames broke out on Tuesday evening near a nature preserve in the inland foothills northeast of LA while another blaze that started hours earlier ripped through the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood.

Several major wildfires, fueled by fierce winds and dry vegetation, scorched Los Angeles all day long. More than 1,000 homes and businesses were reduced to ash. The fires have killed least two people and forced more than 100,000 others to evacuate. Many of my colleagues are on the ground there, reporting live.

Hollywood and the entertainment industry is reeling from fires that will change Los Angeles forever: 'It's like a small nuclear bomb went off.'

Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force on Wednesday after setting off a desperate escape from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. Flames broke out on Tuesday evening near a nature preserve in the inland foothills northeast of LA while another blaze that started hours earlier ripped

As Los Angeles wildfires spread resembling a Hollywood disaster movie, the city’s vast entertainment industry is already counting the costs of yet another drastic setback that its workers can ill afford.