More than a week after enormous blazes spread unchecked through swathes of America's second-largest metropolis, questions are being asked about how some of the city's super-rich seem to have survived almost unscathed.

Wildfires in California have turned the sky orange and grey, forcing 30,000 people to evacuate in Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades.

LA Wildfire Live Updates: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass warned that the wildfire conditions across the city are “expected to worsen” amid the windstorm.