Why Los Angeles, America's most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames

Resident: "Listen," he says, "if you look and see what happened in the Palisades and everywhere else, there could be 6,000 firefighters and it wouldn't be enough."

LA Fire Chief: "If I had a thousand engines to throw at this fire, I honestly don't think a thousand engines at that very moment could have tapped this fire down."

Only recently have winds calmed enough for water-scooping planes to fly over the fires, at least for now.