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Jan 2025
30m 52s

Multiple wildfires raging in Los Angeles

Bbc World Service
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A crescent of flames looms over Los Angeles as wildfires burn. Firefighters manage to bring under control the blaze that had been threatening Hollywood. Also: the dangerous journey across the Darien Gap jungle.

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