Street after street, there is little but dark ash and ruin where a wealthy seaside enclave favored by celebrities once stood.

The Palisades Fire already is the most destructive in Los Angeles history, with at least 1,000 structures burned in the coastline neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.

Many more structures are believed to be destroyed as fire crews struggle to gain containment on the 17,000-acre Palisades Fire: the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history. Preliminary reports indicated the number of damaged or destroyed structures is “in the thousands,

The worst-case scenario has materialized in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles where an estimated 1,000 structures, many of them homes, have been destroyed by a Santa Ana-wind-fueled wildfire,