As we headed down Sunset Boulevard, the loss was worse than any fire we've ever seen.

And this looks like the apocalypse here. Right here, you've got homes that are burning, homes that are burning.

Take a look over here. This is an apartment complex that has gone up. Wow. Wow.

That is a Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church or what is left of it. Those are the remnants of a beautiful church that used to be up on the hill there. The destruction just continues.

It is hard to fathom how much has been lost here.

In the chaos, way too often firefighters left without water as hydrants were dry.

They are not designed to fight wildfires.

A firefight with multiple fire hydrants, drawing water from the system for several hours is unsustainable.

Water!

Wow.

Officials say they weren't able to fill tanks out, which would have helped with the water pressure,

something NBC's Morgan Chesky saw firsthand.

Out of every fire hydrant you've seen, what have you found?

Right now, we're finding most of them are down or a low pressure.

If you had a hydrant for this building, we had a hydrant for this building, we might have been able to save the back now.

This apartment complex is untouched for now, but you can see how close those flames are.

Firefighters are making their way up. Again, they're having to ignore massive structures like this huge apartment complex.

It looks like it's going to go up imminently because they are just overwhelmed.

There isn't enough water up here.

The winds also grounding that critical support in the sky for most of the day.

When firefighters were able to make a stand and save a home, there was no victory.

Just a brief reprieve from the helplessness of fighting fire against the wait. That was Gotti Schwartz for us. For some of our

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