on instagram, mark hamill called the plays is the most horrific fire since 1993 and says he evacuatedyou, we are hearing 30,000 people have been evacuated, so they are just a few of the celebrities commenting on social media and those comments are we being picked up. let's talk more about the reasons we fires are so bad at the moment and bring in our environment correspondent matt mcgrath. matt, a lot of people will be asking of climate change has a role to play here.— role to play here. yes, a lot of --eole role to play here. yes, a lot of people will _ role to play here. yes, a lot of people will be _ role to play here. yes, a lot of people will be asking - role to play here. yes, a lot of people will be asking that - role to play here. yes, a lot of - people will be asking that question indeed, and while it doesn't have a direct role to play, it is undoubtedly impacting the background to these fires. obviously the high winds and the dry conditions are the immediate causes and the immediate spreaders of these fires, but if you look at what is happening in california over the last nu

spielberg, ben affleck, steve guttenberg, you remember him, mark hamill, luke skywalker to you and me. and it's terrible. it's not to underplay it. i mean, it's terrible for them, but would it be getting as much attention if paul coyte house was burning down? no. >> exactly. correct. exactly correct. yeah, it's understandable, because the thing is, celebrity sells. everybody wants to know about celebrities. and then, of course, when it's together with that, i mean, i'd say the words the perfect storm is probably the perfect storm is probably the wrong thing to use, but you know exactly what i'm saying. >> but it is a lethal combination because it's really dry ground at the moment. there's winds of up to 80 miles an hour, which every year there, though it does a lot every year around this time. yeah, they're used to wildfires, aren't they? they have to deal with it every single year. but even los angeles residents are saying this is something that they've never seen before. i mean, it's something like 3000 acres and 50,000 people so far have been evacuated. and i did see yesterday a fe

and on instagram, mark hamill, most famous for his role in star wars, called the blaze the most horrificcuated malibu. last minute, there were small fires on both sides of the road, he said. at least 30,000 people in the area are under evacuation orders as the blaze worsens. let's show you some of the latest pictures that we have. these are firefighters on the ground, battling that claim. we have heard from the governor for california, gavin newsom, saying 1a00 firefighters have been deployed to combat the unprecedented fires in los angeles, with hundreds of additional staff pouring in from across the state. he went on to say that emergency officials, firefighters and first responders are hands on deck to protect against fires. we have been hearing from a public information officer with the california department of forestry and fire protection, saying there is no possibility of containing the fires at the moment, because of the high wind. we have been hearing from the bbc weather centre that they have wind gusts of up to 100 kilometres per hour, making it difficult to contain the fires.