A TV presenter has taken in 12 people to his home as the destructive continue to rage on.

Scott Tweedie, a regular face on Australian TV, said some of his friends in southern California have "lost everything". The 36-year-old star, who splits his time between the state and , has so far taken around 12 people into his home after these LA residents were forced to evacuate and flee their own properties.

Speaking on Thursday, the TV host said: "It's been such a wild experience on just so many levels but I'm in Venice Beach at the moment, I'm 100 per cent OK... A lot of my friends live up there and they've all been evacuated. I've got probably about 12 people in my place at the moment, popping in and staying here, stuff like that."

Many residents across the city have displayed similar generosity this week, as . Neighbourhoods are being evacuated across Los Angeles as new fires have broken out following the original, . Six people have died in the fires so far, authorities confirmed today.

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Speaking on the Kyle and Jackie O Show, Scott continued: "A handful of my friends have just lost everything, they had no time, it just happened so quickly.... It was the windiest conditions I've ever seen but you know there's a fire happening at the same time. It was really scary."

The National Guard has been deployed and could send in military personnel to assist, amid revelations that heroic firefighters are "triaging" homes and neighbourhoods.

A large number of . Stars have taken to social media to express their concern.

Socialite told fans about the fires. In a statement shared to her . She said she was totally heartbroken to see the destruction of her waterfront home on TV. "Heartbroken to find out what happened to my house by seeing that it was burned to the ground on live TV," she wrote in a story, which accompanied a clip of the devastation.