So it’s Saturday night and I’ve just arrived in LAX- I had my sisters engagement party so caught NZ2, the late Air NZ flight.

It’s chaos here. The sky is blood red, freeways are closed, hundreds of homes have been lost.

It’s a truly ominous view out of my hotel room, the air over LAX is thick with smoke. They’re flying massive DC10 air tankers to drop water on the fires.