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Watch HereDevastating wildfires have swept across southern California, killing one person and forcing more than 35,000 to evacuate from their respective homes.
Nearly a dozen fires, driven by hurricane-strength winds, have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest.
In Malibu, an area popular with Hollywood celebrities, some 700 firefighters struggled to protect 200 homes in the surrounding hills.
Britney Spears, Jennifer Aniston and Pierce Brosnan are all known to own properties in the area.
The state governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, declared a state of emergency in seven of the southern California counties affected.