A massive wildfire raging in Pacific Palisades, California, has led to the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents. Fueled by strong winds, the blaze rapidly expanded overnight, prompting urgent calls for residents to flee.
An enormous wildfire which has ripped through California has almost doubled in size overnight, forcing nearly 30,000 people to flee their homes. Traffic was backed up for miles along Sunset Boulevard as residents fled their homes in Pacific Palisades, an upscale neighbourhood home to numerous celebrities.
The Pacific Palisades fire grew from 300 acres to more than 1,200 acres within just an hour and a half, fanned by gusts of wind of up to 100mph – the strongest seen in Southern California in over a decade. Within hours, the fire had once again doubled in size to over 3,000 acres, prompting mass evacuation orders and sending billowing clouds of thick black smoke pouring into the air. Mandatory evacuation orders are in place. So dense was the traffic jam on Palisades Drive that many evacuees abandoned their cars in the middle of the road, preventing emergency vehicles from reaching their destination. A bulldozer was later deployed to push the abandoned cars out of the way and create a path, according to the LA Fire Department. About 24,000 residents live in the neighborhood west of downtown Los Angeles, and it includes celebrity mansions. Long-time Palisades resident Will Adams said he immediately went to pick his two kids up from St. Matthews Parish School when he heard the fire was nearby. Meanwhile, he said embers flew into his wife’s car as she tried to evacuate. ‘She vacated her car and left it running,’ Adams said. She and many other residents walked down toward the ocean until it was safe. Adams said he had never witnessed anything like this in the 56 years he’s lived there. He watched as the sky turned brown and then black as homes started burnin
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