Looter dressed as firefighter to prey on LA fire victims: police

A looter disguised himself as a firefighter to raid a home around fire-wrecked Malibu, police said Sunday.

The alleged raider was one of more than two dozen people arrested as huge blazes rip through the Los Angeles area, with evacuees on edge over the safety of homes they were forced to flee.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said his deputies stopped the man in the Palisades Fire evacuation zone, which extends into Malibu.

"I saw a gentleman that looked like a firefighter...