CA - Pacific Palisades - 30,000 People Ordered to Evacuate From L.A. Wildfires

[iamshadow21]

Southern California Gas Company is temporarily shutting off gas to the Malibu area.

Over a quarter of a million customers are without power.

Over fifteen school districts remain closed.

California wildfires: officials say significant fire growth is likely as flames spread to Hollywood Hills – live

Officials said they were dealing with five major fires, which have destroyed almost 2,000 structures and forced 130,000 people to evacuate

www.theguardian.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1877053020405412042

 

[imstilla.grandma]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1877115173443400065

 

[Jade]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1877053020405412042

Those poor firefighters with all that complete devastation surrounding their Station.
They must be just gutted and will be forever.


all imo

 

[iamshadow21]

Anyway, it's 1:30am here, so I'm passing the baton.

FYI to everyone, CNN, NBC and The Guardian are all running pretty great liveblogs that aren't just repeating each other's information, and LA Times has one too and is also bringing out fantastic articles and doing some good solid boots on the ground old fashioned journalism.

Plenty of others, too, but they're all worth checking out. Goodnight!

 

[amandab]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1877053020405412042

Apocalyptic

 

[imstilla.grandma]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/08/us/california-wildfire-la-palisades

 

[ChatteringBirds]

How do people who lose their homes and have almost nothing to start over with get through something like this psychologically?

Or worse, who lose loved-ones from this?

Not everyone is strong and surrounded by support.

It can be so very rough, this life on Earth.
Those are the people I am thinking of.

 

[Izzylizzy]

6m ago

179,000 residents under evacuation orders, L.A. County says​

"Roughly 179,700 Los Angeles County residents were under evacuation orders as of early Thursday and about 199,600 residents were under evacuation warnings, the county's Office of Emergency Management said.

In the mandatory evacuation zones, 60,120 structures were at risk. Another 61,288 structures were at risk in areas affected by evacuation warnings, the office said.'

Fires in California kill at least 5, scorch Los Angeles area as over 100,000 told to evacuate: Live Updates

The Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Sunset fires are burning in Southern California, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate. Here are the latest updates.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Izzylizzy]

Chief Crowley:
"She told reporters the fire is 'spreading at a speed beyond anything we've seen... it's now unlike anything we have seen in our lifetime.'

The prospect of such an infernal firestorm was raised by podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan last summer, who recounted a chilling conversation he'd had with an LA firefighter.

Speaking to guest and fellow comedian Sam Morril in the July 2024 episode, Rogan recounted: 'He said: ''One day, it's just gonna be the right wind and fire's gonna start in the right place and it's gonna burn through LA all the way to the ocean and there's not a *ing thing we can do about it''.

'If the wind hits the wrong way, it's just going to burn through LA,' he said.

The firefighter's prediction, as told by Rogan, appears to have been proven true, with environmental conditions and unfavourable winds whipping the wildfire into an uncontrollable state."

Insurers dropped fire coverage for homeowners in Palisades months ago

The move from State Farm Insurers came due to the growing frequency and severity of wildfires in the state.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Skigh]

Astonishing video shows LA's scorched earth

Footage reveals how blocks of idyllic LA homes are now nothing more than smouldering ruins with only charred tree stumps and building struts left standing amid the detritus.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[LittleSeaTree]

Astonishing video shows LA's scorched earth

Footage reveals how blocks of idyllic LA homes are now nothing more than smouldering ruins with only charred tree stumps and building struts left standing amid the detritus.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Omg. LA Fire Chief believes fire started accidentally in a back yard as “time lapsed video showed an innocuous trail of smoke rising from the back garden in the outskirts of LA”

 

[Elley Mae]

Musk says SpaceX will provide free Starlink terminals to areas hit by LA wildfires

Musk says SpaceX will provide free Starlink terminals to areas hit by LA wildfires

The SpaceX founder said on Wednesday night that the rocket company would provide the terminals to areas hit by the huge wildfires.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Elley Mae]

California Insurer Canceled Policies Months Before Los Angeles Wildfires

California insurer canceled policies months before Los Angeles wildfires

Residents in one of the neighborhoods currently being ravaged by fire, were left scrambling for coverage.

www.newsweek.com

Several private insurers have cut coverage in at-risk areas across California in the past three years, leaving homeowners scrambling to find options for coverage. As a result, California's FAIR Plan, which works as an insurer of last resort in the state, has more than doubled its policies between 2020 and 2024, reaching a total of 452,000, as reported by CapRadio.

 

[raja]

This is just beyond devastating. Although thankfully the loss of life is low will this be one of the worse natural disasters to hit America. Prayers prayers prayers to everyone touched by this.

 

[Elley Mae]

Tiny burning embers flew miles, causing L.A. fire destruction on historic scale

Tiny burning embers flew miles, causing L.A. fire destruction on historic scale

The life-threatening windstorm exploded into a crisis even worse than predicted, with embers flying an estimated two to three miles ahead of the fire.

www.latimes.com

The life-threatening windstorm that prompted several days of dire warnings exploded into a crisis even worse than firefighters predicted, with embers flying an estimated two to three miles ahead of the established fire and in every direction.

 

[Skigh]

Podcaster Professor Huberman claims he saw people starting blaze in LA

Top scientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman shared footage of what he said was people lighting fires in Los Angeles during the brutal wildfires.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[Lilibet]

My cousin lives in Pacific Palisades. She’s out of the country and as of yesterday didn’t know the fate of her home. I keep trying to find info about her neighborhood, but so far nothing. She lost her partner of over 30 years the summer of 2023 and I don’t want her to go thru any more heartbreak. :-(

Replying to myself…my cousin texted me this morning that her house survived. I’m so relieved for her. But heartbroken for those not as fortunate.

Based on our local experience with the Almeda fire in 2020, destroying about 2300 homes and many businesses, people will rebuild, if they have insurance. It looks like a war zone now in L.A., but in a few years it will look normal again. So there is hope for recovery.

 

[Rixey]

Have these fires become worse? It reminds me of the Colorado fire that went so fast through a populated area, people were literally shopping at Costco, and had to run for their lives.

Marshall Fire - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The Lahaina fire, devastated the area. And created it own "fire tornado".

2023 Hawaii wildfires - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Montana had a few bad fires this summer.

Destructive wildfire in southeastern Montana forces evacuations and claims land

The Remington fire has taken over southeastern Montana, and as of Sunday afternoon, has burned over 196,000 acres and is at 0% containment, according to MT Fire Info.

www.ktvq.com

Is this part of "climate change"? Or are more people living in areas that shouldn't have been developed?

Both