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Those who had escaped the torrent were battling to survive in the aftermath, and desperately in need of aid.

According to recent reports in US media, investigators believe that Tice, a former US Marine, briefly escaped weeks after being seized but was recaptured by forces who answered directly to Assad.

“California is a place that spends money and gets nothing, which is why you may have noticed when the fires broke out, no one escaped by high-speed rail,” he joked.

With its physical buildings and structures intact, the La Cañada Flintridge institution escaped the worst of the fire unscathed.

A group of riders on dirt bikes, doing street stunts and waving to news helicopters, escaped a police pursuit though east Los Angeles County Thursday, authorities said.