LA fires burn area twice the size of Manhattan – worst the city has seen in recent history

The auditorium at the Eliot Arts Magnet academy in Altadena, California, on Friday. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The destruction caused by the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles is the worst the city has seen in recent history.

The wildfires, which began on 7 January, have torched the US’s second largest city, leaving at least 11 dead and over 10,000 structures destroyed. Roughly 150,000 Los Angeles county residents remain under evacuation orders.