A firefighter driving his department vehicle was swept into the ocean in Malibu when caught by a wild mudslide as fire-ravaged sections of Los Angeles were pounded by a powerful rain storm. The damaged white Los Angeles Fire Department SUV was seen trapped in the water after being pushed down a beachside hill by debris caught up in the cascade of rain,

Videos have been posted online of mudslides causing chaos in Southern California after a powerful rainstorm hit the area on Thursday. The storm has impacted a widespread swathe of Southern California with some mandatory evacuations being ordered over fears of rock slides and debris flows in recent burn scar areas,