GMB star 'so scared' and 'ready to evacuate' as wildfire rips through LA

Entertainment correspondent Ross King has confessed he's "so scared" as he prepares to evacuate his home due to wildfires in Los Angeles.

In the last 24 hours, a mandatory evacuation order has been released in the Hollywood Hills following the spread of the wildfires that are currently raging across Los Angeles, USA.

With the fire not yet controlled, Ross, who lives in LA, shared his experience via video link with Good Morning Britain presenters Ranvir Singh and Ed Balls.

Opening up, he said: "We're under evacuation orders at the moment. They're not mandatory, but I tell you, it's such a weird feeling when you're packing up the car. You know we're getting everything ready.

"You go round the house and you take photographs and you're thinking 'this might be the last time you actually see the house,' and that's why your heart breaks when you see so many homes, you know we're talking about thousands of structures gone.

"I've got friends in Malibu who lost their house on a beach, three other people I know have completely lost their homes and when you get that feeling it is one of the weirdest and one of the scariest things that I've gone through!"

The 62-year-old also revealed that he had never seen anything so devastating since living in that particular part of America. He continued: "I've never known anything like it in my 25 years here in Los Angeles, and when you look out there and see these firefighters doing the most unbelievable job.

"We've been so fortunate that the winds haven't been too bad in this area, the helicopters could get in and they could drop a load of water and hopefully put out the majority of the fire that is going on at the moment. But it really is, it's so scary!"

Since the fires began, a number of