A line of vehicles stretching two or three miles snaked along PCH Tuesday as motorists inched into a parking lot for permits to drive into the burn zone.

Evacuated residents are waiting in their cars for hours to get permission to return to Los Angeles neighborhoods devastated by the Palisades Fire, which has been burning for three weeks and destroyed thousands of homes and other structures.

After dealing with security delays at their mobile home park, Pacific Palisades residents were finally able to return home Tuesday after the devastating fire to try to salvage anything that was left.