LA fires: Residents return to utter destruction stretching for blocks

were 10 people are now confirmed dead in the Los Angeles wildfires Crews had to respond overnight to yet another fire that broke out just Northwest of the city nearly 400,000 people still under evacuation orders ABC's Alex Stone has the latest there are almost no words to describe the devastation in Los Angeles County as the wind driven fires have spread to another area across the county over 10,000 buildings destroyed and the number of Dead Rising everything that we know and love is gone not just this house my whole city gone man the whole thing like everything my whole neighborhood everything that I grew up to love and know is burnt up the Kenneth fire erupting in the San Fernando Valley forcing evacuations in the West Hills neighborhood we are expecting this fire to rapidly spread due to high winds all of the major wild fires are in a roughly 25 mile band north of downtown LA the Palisades and eaten fires the largest over 9,000 homes businesses and other buildings are damaged or destroyed early estimates predict 57 billion doll in Damages the Palisades fire still raging overnight after scorching over 19,000 Acres an area the size of Manhattan dozens of blocks flattened to smoldering Rubble only the outlines of homes remain residents in Altadena who came back to inspect what was once their neighborhood shocked as you can you see there's nothing left and I've been here for about an hour and a half and I don't want to leave it's home so I really can't put into wordss the winds are calming here and in fact the red flag fire warnings are expiring later on tonight but firefighters say that they will be working on these fires for many weeks to come Alex Stone ABC News Altadena California