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On the streets of Altadena, thick black smoke was limiting visibility to several feet in some areas, and howling winds lofted burning embers over the heads of firefighters.

Some called it a modern-day equivalent to burning books.

Video screens and posters promote devices that deliver nicotine by heating tobacco rather than burning it.

Witnesses describes shrapnel from the crash damaging cars, and strewing burning debris in the streets.

The teenager said her "heart felt like it was burning," when she saw one of the three being taken away on a stretcher.