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Firefighters say they are too busy managing multiple other variables to spend critical minutes trying to uproot homeowners who ignore evacuation orders.

More than 4,700 structures were destroyed, displacing thousands of families, in some cases uprooting multiple generations from a community they called home for decades.

People already battling homelessness have had their lives uprooted during what are shaping up to be the most destructive wildfires in L.A. history, facing displacement and potential health issues from the wildfire smoke.

But that would mean uprooting their daughter, leaving a neighborhood they love, and starting over while still being on the hook for the mortgage of a damaged property.

Driven by the fires that have uprooted hundreds of thousands of L.A.