Los Angeles Wildfire Live Updates: Massive wildfires tore across the United States’ Los Angeles areas, resulting in tens of thousands of residents being forced to flee their homes and firefighters constantly battling with the flames. Officials are preparing for the situation to worsen, The Associated Press reported. The wildfire that broke out on Tuesday evening near a nature preserve in the foothills northeast of LA spread even faster due to the windy atmosphere.…Read More
Traffic snarls on the Palisades Drive proved as a blockade for emergency vehicles, who couldn’t get through to their destination.
Visuals from across LA showed the destruction of nearly 3,000 acres of land in the area, with residents struggling to breath amid evacuation sounds in the region.
Additionally, officials in Malibu have also asked all the residents to prepare to evacuate their homes to escape from the rapidly spreading wildfire, the New York Times reported.
Los Angeles wildfire | Key points
- A wildfire ripped across an upscale section, Pacific Palisades, of Los Angeles amid a fierce windstorm in Southern California, destroying thousands of acres of land.
- Tens of thousands of residents fled their homes to save their lives from the fast-moving Palisades fire.
- Several expensive cars including models of BMWs, Tesla and Mercedes were destroyed in the fire as firefighters used bulldozers to make way.
- Los Angeles Fire department chief Kristin Crowley, according to AP, said that despite the chaotic evacuation, there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries.
- Hundreds of fighters rushed to the area, battling with the wild blaze from both the ground and the air.
- Acting Mayor and Los Angeles City Council president Marqueece Harris-Dawson announced that the American city has declared a state of emergency over the fire.
