() Los Angeles firefighters have braved a near-unstoppable force in recent days as they attempted to save homes and cities from burning to the ground.

Some of the Los Angeles Fire Department were on the front lines Tuesday into Wednesday for 48 hours straight.

spoke to firefighters who worked for 72 hours before having a break; such was the ferocity of fires moving in hurricane-like winds.

Despite the vast devastation in several areas of LA, now and again, you will see an intact house, what firefighters call a “save.”

“It was just so much fire, so much heat, so many embers, and the wind was so strong that it was just overwhelming,” Capt. Brent Waterwoth of the Fountain Valley Fire Department told Newsnation.

“Even if we would pull up and see a house start to catch [fire], we would put a bunch of water on it, and then it would just go [up in flames], and the one next to it would go, and the one next to it would go. It was like an impossible mission, really,” he added.

Capt. Cameron Hutzler of the Newport Beach Fire Department told he wants the people of the Palisades to know they “tried everything we can to save their homes.”

“It really does break our hearts when we’re looking at these properties that only have a brick chimney that’s still standing, and we see just everything is burning and smoking, and we know that there’s so many memories, and it really breaks our hearts,” he added.

At least 24 people have died as a result of the fires, with winds expected to pick up Monday and Tuesday after a comparative reprieve over the weekend.