Dramatic video shows a member of the Los Angeles Fire Department escaping after his vehicle was carried into the Pacific Coast Highway by a debris flow amid heavy rains in Southern California.

Residents of a Southern California mountain community near the Eaton Fire burn scar are digging out of roads submerged in sludge after the strongest storm of the year swept through the area, unleashing debris flows.

A new atmospheric river is slamming California, including fire-ravaged Los Angeles, where residents are bracing for the possibility of mudslides and landslides.