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CA - Pacific Palisades - 30,000 People Ordered to Evacuate From L.A. Wildfires
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- The Palisades fire is burning through about five football fields a minute
- Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate as a fast-growing fire races through Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, destroying homes
- More than 200,000 homes and buildings are without power across the county.
- Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate as a fast-growing fire races through Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, destroying homes
- More than 200,000 homes and buildings are without power across the county.
A third fire has erupted in LA County as firefighters battle the #PalisadesFire and #CloseFire. The #HurstFire in Sylmar has spread to 100+ acres and forced evacuations north of the 210 from Rockford to the 5/14 freeway split.
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I was thinking, oh, yeah, fires in California, that happens... And then I remembered. It's winter there.
I'm used to fires, awful ones, I'm Australian, it's business as usual from about August onwards. But even here, it's pretty unheard of to get such large fires in winter. Grass fires in farming land, sure, but not on this scale, threatening major urban populations.
I'm used to fires, awful ones, I'm Australian, it's business as usual from about August onwards. But even here, it's pretty unheard of to get such large fires in winter. Grass fires in farming land, sure, but not on this scale, threatening major urban populations.
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The raging wildfire - now burning over 2,900 acres of Los Angeles land - is rapidly ripping through the expensive celebrity enclave, home to Chris Pratt , Reese Witherspoon and Miles Teller.
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California's fire death toll doubles as chaos grips LA
Ten deaths have been confirmed so far in the Los Angeles fires, which have been fanned by powerful winds.
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I was thinking the same. Its quite common for the US, Canada and Australia to share firefighting resources, but it would be very unusual for us to be required during our own peak fire season, we can normally help because our winter is the usual peak Canada/US season. Really scary, and I've seen some videos and its quite horrific, honestly like nothing I've seen even after the horrors of our 2019/2020 bushfires.
It's been 8 months since LA had rain, yet strangely enough, there was a small amount of snow in the San Bernardino mountains and brief rain in the desert to the north and northeast last weekend.
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Thank you Herat! My tree's are still standing!!
In my area thankfully the winds were not as bad as was predicted.
I want to clarify that I'm not directly in the area of the fires but am in Los Angeles County hense the worry about the wind.
I just can't wrap my head around the devistation. My heart breaks for those who lost their homes. It will take a VERY long time for those communities to recover from this.
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The sad fact is, is that we just haven't had any rain, as someone mentioned above.
I'm in the Central Valley and we're just now getting some rain! Really unusual.
Hope there's enough water to put out those flames...
I'm in the Central Valley and we're just now getting some rain! Really unusual.
Hope there's enough water to put out those flames...
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And the residents too for being so brave. There’s a good chance that some of those caregivers were being comforted by the people they care for, even if just by their presence. JMO and my experience when I’ve worked with similar groups.
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LA Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding by $17.6M, focused on homeless spending— months before wildfires turned city into hellscape
The Los Angeles Fire Department had its budget cut by a staggering $17.6 million this financial year, records show — as fire crews continue to battle out-of-control blazes currently ravaging …
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I am happy to hear you and the trees are safe.
The wind patterns are so strong and dramatic that anything can set off a blaze that sheds embers and seeds fires elsewhere. The footage of the Eaton fire region showed houses in a community along a dry riverbed and I'll bet they were worried about floods rather than their entire neighborhood being burned down by 80+ mph winds.
There had been two previous fires in a similar kind of dry mountainous terrain in the general region, the Thomas Fire in 2017 and the Mountain Fire in last November 2024. They were both downslope fire accelerated by drought, dry conditions, and high winds. If anything Pacific Palisades was one of the more obvious choices for a next high-risk area because of similar steep downslope terrain.
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Hollywood stars forced to flee amid devastating Los Angeles wildfires
Large parts of Los Angeles County are under evacuation orders Wednesday as massive wildfires spread through the megacity's hilltop suburbs. Here is what some of the stars are seeing from their backyards.
"Standing in my driveway, getting ready to evacuate," Woods is heard saying in a clip posted shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday, local time. "We've got a lot of planes going over, dropping water, but…"
My father is gone now, but he had been living in a skilled nursing care center with dementia til the end. I was imagining if this was him going through this, and it would have been an awful situation. With the dementia, he was often angry and suspicious on any normal given day, and anything out of routine and disruptive as this would have been would surely have set him off, making taking care of him a nightmare, both for him and the caregivers.
I hope both the elderly residents and their caregivers are coping as well as can be expected today.
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Oh for sure. I guess it’s hard to describe what I wanted to say. I guess the simplest is that in a crisis, the residents are also familiar faces to their caregivers and that can really go a long way, even if they’re also making the logistics tougher.My father is gone now, but he had been living in a skilled nursing care center with dementia til the end. I was imagining if this was him going through this, and it would have been an awful situation. With the dementia, he was often angry and suspicious on any normal given day, and anything out of routine and disruptive as this would have been would surely have set him off, making taking care of him a nightmare, both for him and the caregivers.
I hope both the elderly residents and their caregivers are coping as well as can be expected today.
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