Wildfires leap 'from home to home' in California while blaze burns in New Mexico – video

A wildfire in southern California has destroyed more than 20 houses, many of them multimillion-dollar mansions, in the coastal community of Laguna Niguel, 50 miles south of Los Angeles.

In New Mexico, the largest blaze in the US - which has grown to cover more than 105,140 hectares (259,810 acres) - continued to burn on Thursday morning.

Gusty winds have fanned the flames through the parched vegetation of the drought-stricken terrain in an explosive start to what is expected to be another devastating fire season across the American west

• New Mexico wildfire continues rampage as new blaze erupts in California