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"When I got there, my lodge was absolutely ablaze and lots of fire engines were turning up."

Two fire engines remained at the site overnight "on a watching brief" and the final crew left at 07:15 GMT.

BBC journalists saw flames and smoke in the pavilion area before they were rushed outside where fire engines raced past.

Incident commanders, he said, usually rely on hand crews and fire engines for mop up operations.

This includes a 22-member strike team with five fire engines patrolling the Pacific Palisades area, which is at high risk of mudslides and debris flows due to January’s fire, Moore said.