Photos: Dodgers fans take to the streets after they defeat the Yankees

Crowds of people took to the streets to revel in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ World Series-clinching Game 5 victory over the New York Yankees from downtown Los Angeles to Echo Park, forcing the Los Angeles Police Department to issue several dispersal orders after some businesses were looted and a Metro bus was vandalized and then set ablaze.

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Dodgers fans celebrate as fireworks go off in downtown Los Angeles after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series.

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Diana Parra and Jorge Acosta celebrate the Dodgers’ win over the Yankees at Paradise Bar in East L.A.

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Fans celebrate L.A.’s win over New York on Whittier Boulevard in East L.A.

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Fireworks go off in an intersection in downtown Los Angeles after the Los Angeles Dodgers’ win.

A Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator takes pictures of an MTA bus that was set on fire in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Dodgers fans cheer at Tom’s Watch Bar in Los Angeles.

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Fans celebrate the Los Angeles Dodgers’ win over the New York Yankees on Whittier Boulevard in East L.A.

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A crowd of fans gathers in East L.A. after the Dodgers’ win.