I lived in LA and there are areas that are natural fire breaks (the freeways for instance, the LA River, the Hollywood Hills, Griffith Park, etc..) that could stop the whole basin from going up - and remember you have places like Glendale, the San Fernando Valley, Pasadena that are a long way from where the nukes hit.
One big question would be the winds that day - thats a big factor in fires in LA - depending on how they were blowing you could have had the fires move quickly or not - so I dont see LA as being a sea of ruins a la Tokyo in its entirety
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