A scene of devastation in California.
Dozens of homes damaged, with at least 10
red-tagged as unsafe to enter, after being
engulfed by mudslides in Camarillo Springs,
north of Los Angeles.
Hundreds of homes had to be evacuated as a
Pacific storm pounded Southern California,
with heavy rain and high winds on Friday.
Train services were also affected due to the
ensuing flash floods and mudslides.
Here in Camarillo Springs, boulder-strewn
rivers of mud swept down hillsides that had
been stripped of vegetation last year by a
wildfire.
It left mounds of rock piled up to the roofs
on several homes.
Around 1,000 homes were also placed under
evacuation orders in the LA suburb of Glendora,
where mudslides from a wildfire-burned area
left several roads impassable.
Elsewhere in the state, one person was found
dead on Friday in a rain-swollen flood-control
channel in Orange County, the third storm-related
fatality on the West Coast since Thursday.
Rescue teams saved two people after they were
swept away in the fast-moving Los Angeles
River near a homeless encampment.
High winds also tore down power lines throughout
the region, leaving as many as 78,000 customers
without electricity.
