MALIBU, Calif. — Firefighters hoped that a brief lull in howling winds would give them a chance on Saturday to block, or at least slow, one of two massive California wildfires that have left 11 people dead and driven a quarter-million people from their homes. In less than two days, the Woolsey Fire and the smaller Hill Fire, also in Ventura County, have destroyed more than 150 homes and prompted evacuation orders for more than 250,000 people, fire officials said. In Southern California, some 75,000 homes were ordered evacuated in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, with the Los Angeles County Fire Department tweeting: "imminent threat," adding that "Malibu lakes residents must leave area immediately." As the fires closed in on Malibu, one resident on Twitter pleaded for help in evacuating 40 horses from a farm, The Malibu Times reports. Medical personnel evacuate patients as the Feather River Hospital burns while the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. A state of emergency has been declared as a fast-moving fire burns through Butte County, California.Evacuation orders have been issued for the fire, which has burned 20,000 acres.One of the hardest hit areas was the town of Paradise, which is about 180 miles northeast of San Francisco. “We’ve lost it all,” Larimer, 53, said as ash from the burning town drifted onto her shoulders about five miles outside of Paradise. Her family was among the 40,000 residents forced to evacuate in Butte County, California, after the fire broke out early Thursday, “growing uncontrollably” at a rate of about 80 football fields per minute. “We are still not out of the woods yet.”

Just down the road from the Thousand Oaks bar where 12 people were killed in a mass shooting, residents were also grappling with the Hill Fire, which quickly spread to cover 10,000 acres, Ventura County Fire Department officials said.
At least 11 people have been killed and more than 150,000 evacuated as two big wildfires rage in California, the Camp Fire in Butte County and the Hill Fire in Ventura.