The Los Angeles neighbourhood of Woodland Hills saw almost 50C on Sunday, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city.
"The message from this heatwave is keep paying attention even though we have other problems our hands."
Woodland Hills is now officially the hottest place ever recorded in Los Angeles but records were tumbling across the county, even close to cooling effects of the Pacific Ocean.The record temperatures have seen a state already prone to wildfires left even more vulnerable "I just think it's a natural process," one woman told us."I don't know if it's because of what we're doing to the earth. It's just a natural process, it's just getting hotter, I think it's part of nature."
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