'Nerve-racking': Inside The Aerial Battle To Tame Los Angeles Fires

The aerial firefight has been crucial in the battle to tame huge wildfires that roared through Los Angeles (Credit: AFP)

Helicopter pilot Tim Thomas has fought dozens of wildfires all over the world, but nothing prepared him for the scale and the challenge of the devastating blazes that ripped through Los Angeles.

"I've never seen anything the scale that we saw the first night," he told AFP.