Horrified Weather Channel viewers have claimed to have spotted a charred body in a home destroyed by the wildfires in Los Angeles.
On Wednesday multiple social media users shared clips of the moment they believed showed human remains amid the devastation left by the wildfires.
One X user wrote: ‘Weather channel shows the remains of someone who lost their life in the Palisades fire. Horrifying.’
Another said: ‘Um, What is this? It appears the weather channel wasn’t aware what it was airing? If it is what we think it is, that is so sad.’
A third asked: ‘Did the just show a charred skeleton in the rubble of the Los Angeles fires without realizing it?’
It’s not clear whether the footage actually shows any human remains. DailyMail.com has obscured images of the footage in case the debris does turn out to be a body.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Allen Media Group, which owns the Weather Channel, for comment on this story.
Firefighters began to make progress battling the deadly and devastating fires in the Los Angeles area early Thursday, especially because the ferocious winds that have been driving the fast-moving flames are expected to slow down.
On Wednesday, hurricane-force winds blew embers, igniting block after block in the coastal neighborhood of Pacific Palisades and in Altadena, a community near Pasadena. Aircraft were grounded for a time because of the winds, hampering firefighting efforts.
Nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed in those blazes — called the Palisades and Eaton fires — and the number is expected to increase. The five deaths recorded so far were from the Eaton Fire near Pasadena.
More than 100,000 people are under evacuation orders, and the fires have consumed about 45 square miles — roughly the size of the city of San Francisco.
The Palisades Fire is already the most destructive in Los Angeles’ history.
In Pasadena, Fire Chief Chad Augustin said the city’s water system was stretched and was further hampered by power outages, but even without those issues, firefighters would not have been able to stop the fire due to the intense winds.
‘Those erratic wind gusts were throwing embers for multiple miles ahead of the fire,’ he said.
Still, questions were being raised about why some hydrants ran dry and what caused the water system to buckle when it was needed most.
The dramatic level of destruction was apparent in a comparison of satellite images before and after the fire.
About 250 homes in Altadena that had been dotted with green leafy trees were reduced to rubble. Only a few homes remained, some still in flames according to images from Maxar Technologies. Just a handful of 70 wall-to-wall homes overhanging the Pacific Ocean in Malibu appeared intact.
A perfect storm of overgrown vegetation, dry conditions and uncharacteristic winds are responsible for whipping up the most devastating wildfire Los Angeles has ever seen.
Officials believe the blaze began as a tiny spark as part of an accidental backyard fire.
But the tinderbox conditions meant it was just a matter of hours before the blaze had ballooned out of control.
