Firefighters are rescuing people from homes engulfed in flames as they battle a wildfire moving at a dangerously fast speed in a dense suburban neighborhood northwest of Los Angeles.

A wildfire in Ventura County, California, has prompted thousands of evacuations and destroyed dozens of homes.

Terrie Morin, 60, and her husband, Dave, were at a barber shop when they heard about a raging wildfire making headway toward their Camarillo home on Wednesday morning.