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Can't believe I'm reading this [View all]
At this time of the year.
‘Let’s get out of here’: LA residents flee as fire consumes upmarket areas
Los Angeles: Firefighters are scrambling to corral a fast-moving bushfire in the Los Angeles hillsides dotted with celebrity homes as a potentially “life-threatening, destructive” windstorm hit southern California, fanning the blaze seen for kilometres while traffic out of the area was jammed as residents tried to flee.
Fires raged across an upscale section of the city, sending large billows of smoke over much of the metropolitan area and causing traffic jams as 30,000 people were told to flee their homes under evacuation orders.
At least 510 hectares of the Pacific Palisades area between Santa Monica and Malibu have burnt, officials said, after they had already warned of extreme fire danger from dry, powerful winds. The size of the fire grew sixfold in a matter of hours.
Near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, two hybrid vehicles burnt while firefighters battled a large blaze just up the hill and others barricaded their station by parking firetrucks out front.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/la-residents-flee-fire-as-potentially-life-threatening-destructive-winds-gain-strength-20250108-p5l2rg.html
Archive: https://archive.md/MpgkF
Los Angeles: Firefighters are scrambling to corral a fast-moving bushfire in the Los Angeles hillsides dotted with celebrity homes as a potentially “life-threatening, destructive” windstorm hit southern California, fanning the blaze seen for kilometres while traffic out of the area was jammed as residents tried to flee.
Fires raged across an upscale section of the city, sending large billows of smoke over much of the metropolitan area and causing traffic jams as 30,000 people were told to flee their homes under evacuation orders.
At least 510 hectares of the Pacific Palisades area between Santa Monica and Malibu have burnt, officials said, after they had already warned of extreme fire danger from dry, powerful winds. The size of the fire grew sixfold in a matter of hours.
Near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, two hybrid vehicles burnt while firefighters battled a large blaze just up the hill and others barricaded their station by parking firetrucks out front.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/la-residents-flee-fire-as-potentially-life-threatening-destructive-winds-gain-strength-20250108-p5l2rg.html
Archive: https://archive.md/MpgkF
It's January ffs. What's happening to the world.
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