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A large, fast-moving and growing brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon in Pacific Palisades, prompting mandatory evacuations affecting tens of thousands of people and highway closures, including people who abandoned their vehicles to flee on foot.
More than 13,000 buildings and 26,000 people are in the evacuation zone, which has been labeled “under immediate threat,” according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
As of 9:20 p.m., nearly 3,000 acres had burned, according to Cal Fire.
About 30,000 people have been evacuated from a total of 10,000 households, or 15,000 structures, to include businesses and other buildings so far with no injuries, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell told reporters at a news conference. More
Fire maps Here
As of the beginning of the day, none of the three major fires are 100% uncontrolled and the Santa Anna winds are expected to be hurricane strength. – Dr. Tar
In 2015 20 cars burned on Cajon Pass and people had to flee for their lives. It happens regularly here so despite the raving press this isn’t new. We used to just accept it like people live with tornados and hurricanes but now everything is a world ending event because of climate change.
The one thing I remember more than everything I saw during my short visit to California was all the dry brown landscape when you left the cities.
And that was in the late 70’s when there weren’t all the water restrictions I don’t think.
Why does this keep happening? Is it arson? This will def be the death knell for Insurance in that State.
Sure, it’s burning down, but they now have a lesbian fire chief, and that is what’s really important!!!
Sorry Dippity Do. The little money FEMA had was given out in $750.00 checks to those involved in the Helene and Milton hurricanes. Get Soreass to give you a few Billion to help out.
@Cate,
Incompetence is promoted over merit. Both by the voters, and the pol’s they elect. Consider:
Mayor Karen Bass is on a junket in Guyana. She cut $20m from LAFD’s budget here recently. She’s racing back trying not to miss the photo op’s.
The Chief of LAFD is the first woman and first LGBTQ+ leader of the dept. DEI hire? No clue.
They didn’t refill the local water reservoirs before fire season. Plenty of water up north at this point. My parents are at 50% of yearly average, and they have 3+ months of rain still to fall. But pumping it over the mountains into LA costs $$. Better to store it in the free reservoirs that are too far away…
KR
The home insurance in Palisades are starting to get canceled
35 years in S. Cal so I have a bit of experience. Spring rains cause heavy growth of wild grasses everywhere. Summer heat increases growth and then it all dies off in fall. Every year multiple high pressure ridges set up over Utah, etc and drive high winds across the desert of Nevada and eastern CA. These very high speed and very low humidity winds come over the mountains that surround the L.A. basin and blow , dropping humidity levels to as low as 5%. Currently Altadena is 17% where my neice lives. These low humidity high wind conditions seem to bring out the arsonists too. The careless smokers who throw their lit butts out the window don’t help either. Once started, even though people clear the wild brush from around their homes, the fires spread rapidly through the hillsides and from home to home. The prevalent eucalyptus trees are actually oil-filled fuel for the fires too. We used to commute through a canyon named Carbon Canyon because it pretty much used to burn every year. Then of course the spring rains also bring mudslides. Some of these canyons are so steep that there might be some homes near the base of the hills, but the majority of the hillsides are unoccupied so grasses grow and dry with nobody removing them. But of course without the grasses, the mudslides are worse. Happily now in GA where snow and ice are 3xpected on Friday. LOL
TheMule
Wednesday, 8 January 2025, 12:30 at 12:30 pm
“Sure, it’s burning down, but they now have a lesbian fire chief, and that is what’s really important!!!”
…perhaps they hired her in case they have too MUCH water, and so need someone with experience in sticking her finger in a dyke…
And her tongue. There’s a reason they call them lickalottapusses.