Homes burn as wildfire spreads through Pacific Palisades on high winds

Homes are burning Tuesday in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles as a wildfire spread through the hillside community on high winds. A house was completely destroyed by flames.

KNX News reporter Pete Demetriou posted photos of the Pacific Palisades wildfire near Lachman Lane and Luna Vista Drive to X, noting that a home was “destroyed.”

Demetriou added that winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour are carrying flames “at 90-degree angles toward backyards or homes,” and noted that air power is “limited due to lack of of visibility”.

Andrew Hires, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California who lives near the fire, noted that a house on Lachman Lane had “burned to the ground.”

“We’re in the Palisades Highlands and Fire Road is literally on fire,” commented another social media user, David Hansen, sharing video footage of flames on the side of the road and noting that the wildfire has also hit houses in Charmel. Lane in Pacific Palisades.

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“We’re on Sunset Boulevard, a quarter mile from the ocean – there’s a fire and I hope these cars don’t explode,” Hansen added in a follow-up X post, sharing more video footage of the forest fire.

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“I’m trying to get home to grab some things before all the fences burn,” another social media user wrote in an X-post, sharing photos and videos of roads with sky full of smoke.

The fire that burned several homes and forced thousands of evacuations grew to 770 acres amid a strong windstorm, according to a report from Whittier Daily News.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Capt. Erik Scott noted that the fire was “spreading quickly due to the significant winds we have.”

As Breitbart News reported, the fire started in the brush near the Paseo Miramar neighborhood and then spread to Palisades Drive, where it spread quickly Tuesday morning, destroying homes and cars and forcing residents to evacuate, as well as the local school. .

Meanwhile, another wildfire was seen over the Hollywood Hills.

Although the cause of the fires has not yet been confirmed, the Pacific Palisades wildfire may have been the result of fireworks set off on New Year’s Eve, which are believed to have started as a small fire burning calmly for days, before being ignited and accelerated by violent winds.